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The Copenhagen Ring - winner of The Gramophone Award 2009 (DVD)

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Kirsten Flagstad: Volume 1, The Early Recordings 1914-1941

 


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

 

Tristan und Isolde (DVD): Johannes Felsenstein, Golo Berg, Iordanka Derilova, Richard Decker, Marek Wojciechowski, Alexandra Petersamer, Ulf Paulsen

Iordanka Derilova as Isolde

Iordanka Derilova as Isolde in Johannes Felsenstein's production of Tristan und Isolde at Anhaltisches Theater, Dessau.

felsenstein tristanStage director: Johannes Felsenstein

Conductor: Golo Berg

Tristan: Richard Decker
Isolde: Iordanka Derilova
King Marke: Marek Wojciechowski
Brangäne: Alexandra Petersamer
Kurwenal: Ulf Paulsen
Melot: Kostadin Arguirov
Ein Hirt: Jörg Brückner

Set design and costumes: Stafan Rieckhoff
Chorus master: Helmut Sonne
Dramaturgy: Susanne Schulz
Video director: Brooks Riley

Region 0 worldwide
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian

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Reviews

As to the specific 'voices' on show, clearly the discovery is the Isolde of the Bulgarian soprano Iordanka Derilova, whose splendid intrument is well placed in the dramatic soprano fach [...] Her attack is bold, nothing is shirked or even short-changed.
The Wagner Journal, March 2009

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