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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

 

Der Ring des Nibelungen

Anne Evans in Götterdämmerung

Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Nibelung's Ring / The Ring of the Nibelung) is called "ein Bühnenfestspiel für drei Tage und einen Vorabend" (a stage festival drama for three days and a preliminary evening).

The Ring is really one drama in four parts:

The Ring had its world premiere at the first festival in Bayreuth in 1876. Three cycles were shown. Richard Wagner was stage director and Hans Richter was the conductor. Artists and celebreties from all over the world had come to Bayreuth to be a part of this event.

The next time the complete Ring was produced in Bayreuth was in 1896.

Outside Bayreuth Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete) was produced in the following cities

1878 München
1879 Wien
1880 Hamburg
1881 Berlin (Angelo Neumann's travelling Wagner-Theatre with guest performances in Berliner Viktoria-Theater)
1882–1883 Angelo Neumann's travelling Wagner-Theatre on tour: London (Her Majesty's Theatre), Breslau, Königsberg, Danzig, Hannover, Bremen, Barmen, Dresden, Amsterdam, Brüssel, Aachen, Düsseldorf, Mainz, Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Strassburg, Stuttgart, Basel, Venice, Bologna, Rome, Torino, Triest, Budapest, Graz – totaling 135 performances of the Ring!

 

Der Ring des Nibelungen on CD (complete)
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