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DVD of the month:
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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Wolfgang Schmidt

Wolfgang Schmidt as Siegfried in the Bayreuther Kirchner/Rosalie Ring

Wolfgang Schmidt as Siegfried in the Kirchner/Rosalie Ring from Bayreuth.

Wolfgang Schmidt at Bayreuth

1992

Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser)

1993

Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser)

1994

Siegfried (Siegfried)
Götterdämmerung (Siegfried)

1995

Siegfried (Siegfried)
Götterdämmerung (Siegfried)
Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser)

1996

Siegfried (Siegfried)
Götterdämmerung (Siegfried)
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan)

1997

Siegfried (Siegfried)
Götterdämmerung (Siegfried)

1998

Siegfried (Siegfried)
Götterdämmerung (Siegfried)

2000

Siegfried (Siegfried)
Götterdämmerung (Siegfried)

2001

Götterdämmerung (Siegfried)

2002

Götterdämmerung (Siegfried)

2003

Siegfried (Siegfried)
Götterdämmerung (Siegfried)

2004

Siegfried (Siegfried)
Götterdämmerung (Siegfried)

2009

Das Rheingold (Mime)
Siegfried (Mime)

2010

Das Rheingold (Mime)
Siegfried (Mime)

 

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Must Have Rings on DVD

Lohengrin cover

Der Ring des Nibelungen: Harry Kupfer, Daniel Barenboim, John Tomlinson, Anne Evans, Graham Clarke, Bayreyth Festival

Krauss Ring

Der Ring des Nibelungen: Patrice Chéreau, Pierre Boulez, Donald McIntyre, Gwyneth Jones, Peter Hofmann, Bayreyth Festival

Tristan Furtwängler

Der Ring des Nibelungen: Kasper Bech Holten, Michael Schønwandt, Iréne Theorin, Stig Andersen, Royal Danish Opera

 

 

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