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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

 

Christian Thielemann

Christian Thielemann (born 1959) Thielemann became principal conductor at the Deutsche Oper Am Rhein in 1985. 1988-1992 he served as Music Director of the Nuremberg Opera. In 1993 he made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera. In 1997 he became the General Music Director of the Deutsche Opera Berlin. In 2000 Thielemann made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival.

Christian Thielemann in Bayreuth

2000

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

2001

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Parsifal
Beethoven Symphony No. 9

2002

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Tannhäuser

2003

Tannhäuser

2004

Tannhäuser

2005

Tannhäuser
Special concert

Christian Thielemann/Tankred Dorst Ring at Bayreuth

2006

Das Rheingold
Die Walküre
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung

2007

Das Rheingold
Die Walküre
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung

2008

Das Rheingold
Die Walküre
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung

Christian Thielemann's Bayreuth Festival Ring has been recorded and will be released on CD

In 2015 Christian Thielemann will conduct a new production of Tristan und Isolde at the Bayreuth Festival. Katharina Wagner will be stage director.

 

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