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DVD of the month:
Harry Kupfer's Parsifal production (1992)

 

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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

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Lauritz Melchior in "Two Sisters From Boston" singing Walther von Stolzing's Prize Song

 

Jump to 8:02 to hear Melchior sing the Prize Song.

In the 1940's Lauritz Melchior became a huge movie star.

     

 

Historical Wagner recordings

Lohengrin cover

Lohengrin: Joseph Keilberth, Wolfgang Windgassen, Josef Greindl, Eleanor Steber, Hermann Uhde, Astrid Varnay

Krauss Ring

Der Ring des Nibelungen: Clemens Krauss, Hans Hotter, Gustav Neidlinger, Astrid Varnay, Ramón Vinay

Tristan Furtwängler

Tristan und Isolde: Wilhelm Furtwängler, Kirsten Flagstad, Ludwig Suthaus, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josef Greindl

 

 

 

Norway mourns massacre victims

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