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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 Meistersinger von Nürnberg

The first performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg was on 21 June 1868. It is Wagner's only mature comedy, set in Nürnberg in the 16th century.

The master singers (Meistersinger) were a guild of singers, consisting of amateur poets and musicians, often master craftsmen in their main professions.

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg was produced in the following cities the first years after the world premiere in München on 21 June 1868

1868-69 Karlsruhe
Dresden
Mannheim
Dessau
Weimar
1870 Berlin
Wien
1871 Praha
1872 Copenhagen (in Danish)
1882 London
1883 Amsterdam
Budapest
(in Hungarian)
1885 Brüssel
1886 New York (Metropolitan Opera)
1888 Bayreuth Festival

 

Hans Sachs Josef Greindl - Eva Anja Silja - Walther von Stolzing Wolfgang Windgassen - David Erwin Wohlfahrt - Magdalena Ruth Hesse - Regie Wieland Wagner - Dirigent Thomas Schippers

Famous quotes from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Hans Sachs

Verachtet mir die Meister nicht,
und ehrt mir ihre Kunst!

Das Volk (the people)

Wach auf, es nahet gen den Tag

Ehrt eure deutschen Meister,
dann bannt ihr gute Geister;
und gebt ihr ihrem Wirken Gunst,
zerging in Dunst
das heil'ge röm'sche Reich,
uns bliebe gleich
die heil'ge deutsche Kunst!

 

Meistersinger links

The titles of Richard Wagner's operas in different languages

 

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