DVD of the month:
Harry Kupfer's Parsifal production (1992)
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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
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Landgraf Hermann Jan Hendrik Rootering
Tannhäuser René Kollo
Wolfram von Eschenbach Bernd Weikl
Walther von der Vogelweide Claes Håkan Ahnsjö
Biterolf Hans Günther Nöcker
Heinrich der Schreiber James Anderson
Reinmar von Zweter Gerhard Auer
Elisabeth Nadine Secunde
Venus Waltraud Meier
Ein junger Hirt Johannes Pohl
Chor und Orchester der
Bayerischen Staatsoper
Stage design: Roni Toren
Costumes: Buki Schiff
Video director: Brian Large
Chorus master: Udo Mehrpohl
Filmed at Bayerische Staatsoper, München, in September, 1994
Stage director: David Alden