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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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Die Walküre (DVD): James Levine, Otto Schenk, Lakes, Norman, Morris, Behrens, Moll, Ludwig

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Conductor: James Levine

Stage director: Otto Schenk

Siegmund Gary Lakes
Sieglinde Jessye Norman
Wotan James Morris
Brünnhilde Hildegard Behrens
Hunding Kurt Moll
Fricka Christa Ludwig
Gerhilde Pyramid Sellers
Ortlinde Martha Thigpen
Waltraute Joyce Castle
Schwertleite Sondra Kelly
Helmwige Katarina Ikonomu
Siegrune Diane Kesling
Grimgerde Wendy Hillhouse
Rossweisse Jacalyn Bower

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Stage design: Günther Schneider-Siemssen
Costumes: Rolf Langenfass
Video director: Brian Large

Recorded in April, 1989

Other DVD's in this Ring:

Das Rheingold
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung

The complete Ring with James Levine conducting the Metropolitan Opera is also available on CD. The cast is slightly different.

Buy Die Walküre with Levine/Metropolitan on DVD

 

 

 

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