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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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Jon Vickers

Jon Vickers is a Canadian heroic tenor who made great success with Siegmund and Tristan, his two signature roles. He only performed in Bayreuth two summers, which partly was a result of schedule conflicts, and partly as a result of conflicts with Wieland Wagner, who didn't like that Vickers turned down his offers.

Jon Vickers in Bayreuth

These Bayreuth performances have been released on LP and CD.

Jon Vickers' Wagner roles

Jon Vickers only sang four Wagner parts:

Vickers was one of Herbert von Karajan's favourite tenors. Karajan's recording of Die Walküre has Vickers as Siegmund, and when Karajan recorded Tristan, the choice fell on Jon Vickers.

Herbert von Karajan on Jon Vickers

"I have long been fascinated by his work. He is a very complex man; he thinks deeply about every role and you must talk to him in great detail. But his presence on stage – above all, his delivery – is so good. In the great roles – his Tristan, his Otello – it seems to me he brings to the part a unique sense of musical phrasing. The phrasing may be very individual but he will lift it and project it. With so many singers the music simply goes in one particular way; with him it is always individual and special." (Jeannie Williams: Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life, p 176)

 

Jon Vickers Biography

Jeannie Williams: Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life (with a foreword by Birgit Nilsson)

A Conversation with Jon Vickers. By Bruce Duffie.
About Jon Vickers on Wikipedia

 

 

 

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