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Blu-ray of the month

 


Recording of the month:
Barenboim Complete Wagner Operas

 

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Eva Rieger: Wagner's Women

 


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

 

Videos related to Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Meistersinger videos on YouTube

Selig wie die Sonne

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

Giorgio Tozzi (Sachs)
Arlene Saunders (Eva)
Richard Cassily (Walther)
Gerhard Unger (David)
Ursula Boese (Magdalena)
Toni Blankenheim (Beckmesser)

Vorspiel Act 1

Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Meistersinger Prelude at an AEG factory during WW II.

 

Christian Thielemann

Walther von Stolzing

Sandor Konya, one of the best Walthers. Available on Rafael Kubelik's cult recording from 1967.

Ben Heppner

Johan Botha, Christian Thielemann, Wiener Staatsoper

Theo Adam as Hans Sachs (1981)

Theo Adam and Spas Wenkoff.

Glenn Gould plays Meistersinger Vorspiel

Trailers

Katharina Wagner's Meistersinger production at Bayreuth

 

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Norway mourns massacre victims

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