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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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Thomas Stewart at Bayreuth Festival

Thomas Stewart appeared numerous times in major Wagner bass-baritone roles at the Bayreuth Festival between 1960 and 1972.

1960

Das Rheingold (Donner)
Götterdämmerung (Gunther)
Parsifal (Amfortas)

1961

Das Rheingold (Donner)
Götterdämmerung (Gunther)
Thomas Stewart Vienna Concert BernsteinParsifal (Amfortas)

1962

Parsifal (Amfortas)

1963

Parsifal (Amfortas)

1964

Greindl, Nilsson, Stewart

Josef Greindl (Hagen), Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde) and Thomas Stewart (Gunther) in Götterdämmerung at Bayreuth Festival, probably 1965.

Parsifal (Amfortas)

1965

Der fliegende Holländer (Der Holländer)
Götterdämmerung (Gunther)
Parsifal (Amfortas)

1966

Tannhäuser (Wolfram von Eschenbach)
Götterdämmerung (Gunther)
Parsifal (Amfortas)

boulez parsifal cover

1967

Tannhäuser (Wolfram von Eschenbach)
Das Rheingold (Wotan)
Die Walküre (Wotan)
Götterdämmerung (Gunther)
Parsifal (Amfortas)

1968

Lohengrin (Der Heerrufer)
Götterdämmerung (Gunther)
Parsifal (Amfortas)

1969

Das Rheingold (Wotan)
Die Walküre (Wotan)
Siegfried (Der Wanderer)
Götterdämmerung (Gunther)
Parsifal (Amfortas)

1970

parsifal boulez coverDas Rheingold (Wotan)
Die Walküre (Wotan)
Siegfried (Der Wanderer)
Parsifal (Amfortas)

1971

Der fliegende Holländer (Der Holländer)
Das Rheingold (Wotan)
Die Walküre (Wotan)
Siegfried (Der Wanderer)
Parsifal (Amfortas)

1972

Das Rheingold (Wotan)
Die Walküre (Wotan)
Siegfried (Der Wanderer)
Götterdämmerung (Gunther)
Parsifal (Amfortas)

On Thomas Stewart as Hans Sachs on Kubelik's Meistersinger recording: "No other recording of the stereo age offers a more human and moving Sachs." S. Mauss in Das Opernglas 5, 1997

Thomas Stewart as Wotan: Wagner Concert in Vienna 1985 with Leonard Bernstein

Die Walküre (ending)

 

 

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