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DVD of the month

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

Recording of the month

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): Heiner Müller (1995), Daniel Barenboim, Siegfried Jerusalem, Waltraud Meier, Matthias Hölle, Falk Struckmann

Stage director: Heiner Müller (1929-95)

cover tristan dvd heiner mullerConductor: Daniel Barenboim

Tristan: Siegfried Jerusalem
Isolde: Waltraud Meier
King Marke: Matthias Hölle
Brangäne: Uta Priew
Kurwenal: Falk Struckmann
Melot: Poul Elming
Ein Hirt: Peter Maus
Ein Steuermann: Sándor Sólyom-Nagy
Ein junger Seemann:Poul Elming

Set design: Erich Wonder
Costume design: Yohji Yamamoto
Chorus master: Norbert Balatsch
Video director: Horant H. Hohlfeld

Filmed at the Bayreuth Festival 3-9 July 1995.
The production was shown in Bayreuth the following years: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999

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

Heiner Müller's production of Tristan und Isolde in Bayreuth on DVD (Amazon)

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Reviews

This is a fine and intensely moving account of a supreme masterpiece of musical theatre. It is not perfect, with the setting for Act 2 particularly unappealing, but it is serious in its dramatic, theatrical intent, and (that Act 2 setting apart) accomplished in its realisation.
Arnold Whittall in Gramophone

"Watch this to listen to Daniel Barenboim´s glorious conducting without being disturbed by irrelevant stage action. And to have the ideal Tristan and Isolde combination in Waltraud Meier and Siegfried Jerusalem. Strongly recommended as my personal favourite."
Mostly Opera

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