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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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Violeta Urmana

ParsifalThe Lithuanian-born singer Violeta Urmana is now recognised as one of the leading dramatic sopranos in the Italian and German fach with roles such as Kundry, Isolde, Sieglinde, Aida, Amelia, Elisabetta, Gioconda, Leonora, Tosca and Norma.

Violeta Urmana has recorded the title role of La Gioconda conducted by Marcello Viotti, excepts from Tristan und Isolde and from Götterdämmerung conducted by Antonio Pappano, Azucena in Verdi's Il Trovatore conducted by Riccardo Muti, Cuniza in Verdi's Oberto conducted by Sir Neville Marriner, Beethoven's 9th Symphony conducted by Claudio Abbado, Berlioz's La mort de Cléopâtre conducted by Bertrand de Billy, Zemlinsky's Maeterlinck-Lieder and Stravinsky's Le Rossignol conducted by James Conlon, Mahler's 2nd Symphony conducted by Kazushi Ono and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Rückert-Lieder conducted by Pierre Boulez. Verdi's Requiem with Violeta Urmana in the soprano role, with Semyon Bychkov conducting the WDR Symphony Orchestra, was released in July 2008. In September 2009 has been issued a Puccini album together with Placido Domingo and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra by the Deutsche Grammophon, titled "Puccini Rediscovered".

Violeta Urmana plays the role of Kundry in Tony Palmer's film The Search for the Holy Grail.

In 2002, in London, she received the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for singers and in 2009 the Austrian "Kammersängerin" award in Vienna.

Wagner: Parsifal (Gergiev)

Violeta Urmana at Bayreuth

1994

Die Walküre (Waltraute)
Götterdämmerung (2. Norn)

1999

Parsifal (Kundry)

2000

Götterdämmerung (Waltraute)
Parsifal (Kundry)

2001

Die Walküre (Sieglinde)
Parsifal (Kundry)

2002

Die Walküre (Sieglinde)

2003

Die Walküre (Sieglinde)

 

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