Blu-ray of the month

Recording of the month:
Janowski's Meistersinger

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Eva Rieger: Wagner's Women

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

Love Duet from Tristan und Isolde, Act 2

Gwyneth Jones and William Johns: Love Duet from Tristan und Isolde (Paris, 1985)

Luana Devol (Isolde) and Louis Gentile (Tristan) in a Willy Decker production

"O sink hernieder" from the Act 2 of Tristan und Isolde (Antwerp). Silvio Varviso conducts. Luana Devol (Isolde) and Louis Gentile (Tristan) in a Willy Decker production originally from Leipzig.

Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior

Claude Heater and Jacqueline van Quaille (Belgian filmed version, 1970)

Claude Heater played Jesus Christ in Ben Hur (1959)

Norway mourns massacre victims

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