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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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Tannhäuser (DVD): Jens-Daniel Herzog, Franz Welser-Möst, Alfred Muff, Peter Seiffert, Roman Trekel, Jonas Kaufmann, Solveig Kringelborn, Isabelle Kabatu
Stage
director Jens-Daniel Herzog
Conductor Franz Welser-Möst
Landgraf Hermann Alfred Muff
Tannhäuser Peter Seiffert
Wolfram von Eschenbach Roman Trekel
Walther von der Vogelweide Jonas Kaufmann
Biterolf Rolf Haunstein
Heinrich der Schreiber Martin Zysset
Reinmar von Zweter Guido Götzen
Elisabeth Solveig Kringelborn
Venus Isabelle Kabatu
Ein junger Hirt Martina Janková
Edelknaben Kathrin Brunner, Sandra Kundert, Rebecca Rüegger, Katharina Gebauer
Chor und Orchester: Oper Zürich
Stage design: Bernhard Kleber
Costumes: Ann Poppel
Chorus master: Jürg Hämmerli & Ernst Raffelsberger
Filmed 2003
The Zürich Tannhäuser on Amazon 
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