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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

 

Die Walküre on DVD

P. Chéreau / P. Boulez (Bayreuth, 1980)

Peter Hofmann, Jeannine Altmeyer, Gwyneth Jones, McIntyre, Matti Salminen
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Kupfer /  Barenboim (Bayreuth, 1991)

Poul Elming, Nadine Secunde, John Tomlinson, Anne Evans, Matthias Hölle
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Otto Schenk / James Levine (Metropolitan)

Lakes, Jessye Norman, James Morris, Hildegard Behrens, Kurt Moll, Ludwig
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Harry Kupfer / Bertrand de Billy (Barcelona)

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Halfvarson, Berkeley-Steele, Deborah Polaski, Falk Struckmann, Linda Watson, Lioba Braun
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Christoph Nel / Lothar Zagrosek. Stuttgart Ring

Robert Gambill, Angela Denoke, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Renate Behle, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Attila Jun
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Carl St. Clair, Michael Schulz (Weimar Ring)

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Renatus Mészár, Catherine Foster, Erin Caves, Kirsten Blanck, Hidekazu Tsumaya, Christine Hansmann
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