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Blu-ray of the month

 


Recording of the month:
Janowski's Meistersinger

 

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Eva Rieger: Wagner's Women

 


Important years in Richard Wagner's life

1813 born in Leipzig
1834 Die Feen completed
1843 Holländer premiere
1845 Tannhäuser premiere
1850 Lohengrin premiere
1852 text of Rheingold and Walküre
1854 Das Rheingold completed
1856 Die Walküre completed
1859 Tristan completed
1865 Tristan premiere in Munich
1868 Meistersinger premiere
1869 Das Rheingold premiere
1870 Die Walküre premiere
1871 Siegfried completed
1874 Götterdämmerung completed
1876 First Festival in Bayreuth
1882 Parsifal premiere
1883 Wagner dies in Venice

 

Der Ring des Nibelungen on DVD

Patrice Chéreau /  Boulez / Bayreuth

ring cover chereau

Donald McIntyre, Gwyneth Jones, Heinz Zednik, Peter Hofmann, Manfred Jung, Jeannine Altmeyer, Matti Salminen, Hermann Becht, Franz Mazura, Fritz Hübner, Helmut Pampuch
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Harry Kupfer / Daniel Barenboim / Bayreuth

kupfer ring bayreuth

John Tomlinson, Anne Evans, Poul Elming, Nadine Secunde, Graham Clark, Helmut Pampuch, Bodo Brinkmann, Günter von Kannen, Philip Kang, Matthias Hölle, Linda Finnie, Birgitta Svendén
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Otto Schenk / James Levine / Metropolitan

levine ring metropolitan

James Morris, Hildegard Behrens, Siegfried Jerusalem, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Heinz Zednik, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Matti Salminen, Christa Ludwig, Gary Lakes, Jessye Norman, Kurt Moll
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The Copenhagen Ring:
Kasper Holten / Michael Schønwandt

copenhagen ring on dvd cover

Johan Reuter, Randi Stene, Sten Byriel, Michael Kristensen, Bengt-Ola Morgny, Stephen Milling, James Johnson, Iréne Théorin, Stig Fogh Andersen, Susanne Resmark, Peter Klaveness, Guido Paevatalu, Ylva Kihlberg
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The Stuttgart Ring:
Wieler & Morabito / Lothar Zagrosek

Robert Künzli, Michaela Schuster, Robert Gambill, Angela Denoke, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Renate Behle, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Wiebke Göetjes, Jon Fredric West, Lisa Gasteen, Luana DeVol, Albert Bonnema
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Barcelona Ring:
Harry Kupfer / Bertrand de Billy

kupfer ring barcelona

Falk Struckmann, Deborah Polaski, Lioba Braun, Kwanchul Youn, Eric Halfvarson, Andrea Bönig, Richard Berkeley-Steele, Linda Watson, Cristina Obregón, John Treleaven, Matti Salminen, Elisabete Matos
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Amsterdam Ring:
Pierre Audi,
Hartmut Haenchen

Amsterdam Ring

John Keyes, Nadine Secunde, Jeannine Altmeyer, John Bröcheler, Kurt Rydl, Graham Clark

Weimar Ring:
Carl St. Clair,
Michael Schulz

weimar ring

Mario Hoff, Renatus Mészár, Catherine Foster, Erin Caves, Kirsten Blanck, Frieder Aurich, Hidekazu Tsumaya

Lübeck Ring:
Roman Brogli-Sacher,
Anthony Pilavachi

Stefan Heidemann, Antonio Yang, Veronika Waldner, Andrew Sritheran, Rebecca Teem, Jürgen Müller, Stuart Patterson, Richard Decker, Gary Jankowski

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