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Blu-ray of the month

 

Recording of the month:
Janowski's Meistersinger

 

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Eva Rieger: Wagner's Women

 


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

 

Die Walküre (DVD): Daniel Barenboim, Poul Elming, Nadine Secunde, John Tomlinson, Anne Evans, Harry Kupfer, Bayreuth Festival

Stage director: Harry Kupfer

Conductor: Daniel Barenboim

Siegmund: Poul Elming
Sieglinde: Nadine Secunde
Brünnhilde: Anne Evans
Wotan: John Tomlinson
Hunding Matthias Hölle
Fricka: Linda Finnie
Gerhilde: Eva Johansson
Ortlinde: Ruth Floeren
Waltraute: Shirley Close
Schwertleite: Hitomi Katagiri
Helmwige: Eva-Marie Bundschuh
Siegrune: Linda Finnie
Grimgerde: Birgitta Svendén
Rossweisse: Hebe Dijkstra

Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele

Stage Design: Hans Schavernoch
Costume design: Reinhard Heinrich

Die Walküre on DVD on Amazon in Harry Kupfer's production from Bayreuth

 

Anne Evans and John Tomlinson in Die Walküre

 

Norway mourns massacre victims

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