Hans Knappertsbusch at Bayreuth

     

 

1951

Das Rheingold (Conductor)
Die Walküre (Conductor)
Siegfried (Conductor)
Götterdämmerung (Conductor)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Conductor)
Parsifal (Conductor)

1952

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Conductor)
Parsifal (Conductor)

1954

Parsifal (Conductor)

1955

Der fliegende Holländer (Conductor)
Parsifal (Conductor)

1956

Das Rheingold (Conductor)
Die Walküre (Conductor)
Siegfried (Conductor)
Götterdämmerung (Conductor)
Parsifal (Conductor)

1957

Das Rheingold (Conductor)
Die Walküre (Conductor)
Siegfried (Conductor)
Götterdämmerung (Conductor)
Parsifal (Conductor)

1958

Das Rheingold (Conductor)
Die Walküre (Conductor)
Siegfried (Conductor)
Götterdämmerung (Conductor)
Parsifal (Conductor)

1959

Parsifal (Conductor)

1960

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Conductor)
Parsifal (Conductor)

1961

Parsifal (Conductor)

1962

Parsifal (Conductor)

1963

Parsifal (Conductor)

1964

Parsifal (Conductor)

Said about Knappertsbusch

"The truth was that Knappertsbusch took very badly to recording conditions, and, no matter what we did, the genius which he so certainly revealed in the theatre refused to come alive in studio conditions [...] In the theatre I believe that he was a Wagner conductor of supreme ability. But on records he was a total failure." (John Culshaw: Ring Resounding, 1967)

 

 

Selected Biographies

 

 

Parsifal: Articles and Reviews

William Kinderman: Wagner’s Parsifal (Review and comments by Germán A. Bravo-Casas)

Mark Berry: Bayreuth 2017: Parsifal

Mark Berry: Bayreuth 2016: Parsifal

Mark Berry: Bayreuth Festival: 2012: Parsifal

Mark Berry: Bayreuth Festival: 2011: Parsifal

Colin Bayliss: Parsifal and anti-Semitism

Bayreuth 2008: Stefan Herheim: Parsifal (Per-Erik Skramstad)

Jerry Floyd on Claus Guth's Parsifal production at Gran Teatre Liceu

Daniel Barenboim: Complete Wagner Operas (34 CD)