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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, Paris-version): Otto Schenk, James Levine, Richard
Cassilly, Eva Marton, Bernd Weikl, John Macurdy, Tatiana Troyanos
Stage director: Otto Schenk
Conductor: James Levine
Landgraf Hermann John Macurdy
Tannhäuser Richard Cassilly
Wolfram von Eschenbach Bernd Weikl
Walther von der Vogelweide N/A
Biterolf N/A
Heinrich der Schreiber N/A
Reinmar von Zweter N/A
Elisabeth Eva Marton
Venus Tatiana Troyanos
Ein junger Hirt N/A
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet
Stage design: Gunther Schneider-Siemssen
Video director: Brian Large
Filmed at the Metropolitan Opera on 22 November and 20 December, 1982.
Stage director: Otto Schenk 
Tannhäuser is available on Amazon