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Harry Kupfer's Parsifal production (1992)

 

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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

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Harry Kupfer at the Bayreuth Festival

1978

Der fliegende Holländer (Stage Director)

cover kupfer hollanderConductor: Woldemar Nelsson
Holländer: Simon Estes
Senta: Lisbeth Balslev
Daland: Matti Salminen
Erik: Robert Schunk
Steuermann: Graham Clark
Mary: Anny Schlemm

Recorded at Bayreuth Festival in 1985. Released on VHS and later DVD.

See interview with Lisbeth Balslev and Graham Clark

1979

Der fliegende Holländer (Stage Director)

1980

Der fliegende Holländer (Stage Director)

1981

Der fliegende Holländer (Stage Director)

1982

Der fliegende Holländer (Stage Director)

1984

Der fliegende Holländer (Stage Director)

1985

Der fliegende Holländer (Stage Director)

A new version of of Harry Kupfer's Holländer production was presented at Staatsoper Berlin.

1988

Das Rheingold (Stage Director)
Die Walküre (Stage Director)
Siegfried (Stage Director)
Götterdämmerung (Stage Director)

ring cover kupferSee more details about Harry Kupfer's productions of Der Ring des Nibelungen here

John Tomlinson (Wotan), Deborah Polaski / Anne Evans (Brünnhilde), Siegfried Jerusalem (Siegfried), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Graham Clark (Loge and Mime), Poul Elming (Siegmund), Nadine Secunde (Sieglinde), Philip Kang (Fafner and Hagen) and Waltraud Meier (Waltraute in Götterdämmerung).

See interview with Anne Evans (Brünnhilde) and Graham Clark (Loge and Mime)

1989

Das Rheingold (Stage Director)
Die Walküre (Stage Director)
Siegfried (Stage Director)
Götterdämmerung (Stage Director)

1990

Das Rheingold (Stage Director)
Die Walküre (Stage Director)
Siegfried (Stage Director)
Götterdämmerung (Stage Director)

1991

Das Rheingold (Stage Director)
Die Walküre (Stage Director)
Siegfried (Stage Director)
Götterdämmerung (Stage Director)

1992

Das Rheingold (Stage Director)
Die Walküre (Stage Director)
Siegfried (Stage Director)
Götterdämmerung (Stage Director)

A new version of of Harry Kupfer's Ring production was presented at Staatsoper Berlin.

 

 

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