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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

 

Parsifal

Richard Wagner completed Parsifal in 1882. The same year it was premiered in the re-opening of the Bayreuth Festival. Parsifal was the only opera production that was played at the Festival in 1882. It was performed 16 times.

Parsifal and Kundry (Siegfried Jerusalem and Eva Randova) in Wolfgang Wagner's Bayreuth production in 1981, available on DVD.

Parsifal was produced in the following cities the first years after the world premiere in Bayreuth on 26 July 1882

Richard Wagner ordered Parsifal was to be performed no other place than the Bayreuth Festival. For 30 years Parsifal could not be performed outside Bayreuth.

1883 Bayreuth
1884 Bayreuth
1886 Bayreuth
1888 Bayreuth
1889 Bayreuth
1891 Bayreuth
1892 Bayreuth
1894 Bayreuth
1897 Bayreuth
1899 Bayreuth
1901 Bayreuth
1902 Bayreuth
1903 Paris (concert performance of highlights)
Milano (La Scala) (concert performance of highlights)
New York (Metropolitan Opera), complete
1904 Bayreuth
1906 Bayreuth
1908 Bayreuth
1909 Bayreuth
1911 Bayreuth
1912 Bayreuth
1913 Monte Carlo
Zürich
1914 Barcelona and 40 other theatres only in the first month of the year
Bayreuth

 

Parsifal on DVD | Parsifal on CD

Parsifal conductors in Bayreuth

 

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