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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 (DVD): Harry Kupfer, Daniel Barenboim, John Tomlinson, Anne Evans

Das Rheingold

Daniel Barenboim, Harry Kupfer, John Tomlinson, Graham Clark, Günter von Kannen, Helmut Pampuch, Matthias Hölle, Philip Kang, Linda Finnie, Birgitta Svendén
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Die Walküre

Daniel Barenboim, Harry Kupfer, Poul Elming, Nadine Secunde, Matthias Hölle, John Tomlinson, Anne Evans
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Siegfried

Daniel Barenboim, Harry Kupfer, Siegfried Jerusalem, John Tomlinson, Anne Evans, Graham Clark
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Götterdämmerung

Daniel Barenboim, Harry Kupfer, Anne Evans, Siegfried Jerusalem, Philip Kang, Günter von Kannen, Eva-Maria Bundschuh, Waltraud Meier
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"The highlight of my working life."
John Tomlinson on the Kupfer Ring at Bayreuth

Stage director Harry Kupfer teamed up with conductor Daniel Barenboim to produce a first class, thought-provocative and very moving version of Der Ring des Nibelungen in Bayreuth.

The interaction between the characters are superbly worked out to add psychological depth and produce a drama about survival in an age of anxiety and terror.

The singers are generally very strong. John Tomlinson as Wotan leads a team of excellent singer-actors like Anne Evans (Brünnhilde), Siegfried Jerusalem (Siegfried), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Graham Clark (Loge and Mime), Poul Elming (Siegmund), Nadine Secunde (Sieglinde), Philip Kang (Fafner and Hagen) and Waltraud Meier (Waltraute in Götterdämmerung).

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Anne Evans as Brünnhilde and Siegfried Jerusalem as Siegfried in Siegfried.
Anne Evans as Brünnhilde and Siegfried Jerusalem as Siegfried in Siegfried.

Interview with Anne Evans

 

 

 

 

Norway mourns massacre victims

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