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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Das Rheingold
Donald McIntyre (Wotan), Heinz Zednik (Loge), Hermann Becht (Alberich), Hanna Schwarz (Fricka), Matti Salminen (Fasolt), Fritz Hübner (Fafner), Carmen Reppel (Freia), Martin Egel (Donner), Siegfried Jerusalem (Froh), Helmut Pampuch (Mime), Ortrun Wenkel (Erda),...
Chéreau's Marxist-tinged, Industrial Revolution-set production was by no means greeted with universal enthusiasm when it made its debut at the 1976 Bayreuth Festival...By the time the production... — More…
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Wagner: Parsifal
Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Siegfried Jerusalem (Parsifal), Kurt Moll (Gurnemanz), Bernd Weikl (Amfortas), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Titurel), Franz Mazura (Klingsor)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine
Wagner: Parsifal
Siegfried Jerusalem (Parsifal), Eva Randová (Kundry), Hans Sotin (Gurnemanz), Bernd Weikl (Amfortas), Leif Roar (Klingsor), Matti Salminen (Titurel), Hanna Schwarz (Alto Stimme)
Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Horst Stein
A simple, beautiful staging in glowing stained-glass hues, with Jerusalem and Sotin near-ideal, Kundry and Amfortas slightly less so, but Stein's conducting is soundly theatrical. — More…
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Siegfried Jerusalem (Tristan), Waltraud Meier (Isolde), Matthias Hölle (Konig Marke), Falk Struckmann (Kurwenal), Uta Priew (Brangaene), Poul Elming (Melot/Seemann), Peter Maus (Hirt)
Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Daniel Barenboim, Heiner Müller
Daniel Barenboim's earliest performances of Tristan at Bayreuth are documented in a DVD of the 1981 production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (filmed in 1983) with René Kollo and Johanna Meier in the... — More…
Offer, Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Das Rheingold
John Tomlinson (Wotan), Graham Clark (Loge), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Linda Finnie (Fricka), Matthias Hölle (Fasolt), Philip Kang (Fafner), Eva Johansson (Freia), Bodo Brinkmann (Donner), Kurt Schreibmayer (Froh), Helmut Pampuc (Mime), Birgitta Svendén (Erda),...
If a cycle is going as well as the Harry Kupfer/Daniel Barenboim Ring was, the super-test of Götterdämmerung brings out the best in everyone… Barenboim manipulates his orchestra with Furtwänglerian... — More…
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Bernd Weikl (Hans Sachs), Siegfried Jerusalem (Walther), Mari Anne Haeggander (Eva), Hermann Prey (Beckmesser), Marga Schiml (Magdalena), Graham Clark (David), Manfred Schenk (Pogner), Jef Vermeersch (Kothner), Matthias Hölle (Nachtwächter)
Bayreuther Festspiele, Horst Stein
The best Meistersinger on video so far reaches DVD at last. Stein isn't the most individual interpreter, but his immense Bayreuth experience and craft illuminate the score with deceptive naturalness,... — More…
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Das Rheingold
James Morris (Wotan), Siegfried Jerusalem (Loge), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich), Christa Ludwig (Fricka), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Fasolt), Matti Salminen (Fafner), MariAnne Häggander (Freia), Alan Held (Donner), Jean-Mark Baker (Froh), Heinz Zednik (Mime), Birgitta...
None of the four video-recorded versions can be called ideal; but this Met cycle has plenty of strong points. It's the only one Wagner would have recognised – no small consideration. It's frequently... — More…
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
James Morris (Wotan), Siegfried Jerusalem (Loge), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich), Christa Ludwig (Fricka), Mari Anne Häggander (Freia), Birgitta Svendén (Erda), Heinz Zednik (Mime), Matti Salminen (Fafner), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Fasolt)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
None of the four video-recorded versions can be called ideal; but this Met cycle has plenty of strong points. It's the only one Wagner would have recognised – no small consideration. It's frequently... — More…
Wagner: Siegfried
Siegfried Jerusalem (Siegfried), Hildegard Behrens (Brünnhilde), James Morris (Der Wanderer), Heinz Zednik (Mime), Dawn Upshaw (Waldvogel), Birgitta Svendén (Erda), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich), Matti Salminen (Fafner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
None of the four video-recorded versions can be called ideal; but this Met cycle has plenty of strong points. It's the only one Wagner would have recognised – no small consideration. It's frequently... — More…
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Hildegard Behrens (Brünnhilde), Siegfried Jerusalem (Siegfried), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Christa Ludwig (Waltraute), Hanna Lisowska (Gutrune), Anthony Raffell (Gunther), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich), Kaaren Erickson (Woglinde), Diane Kesling (Wellgunde), Meredith Parsons (Flosshilde), Gweneth Bean...
None of the four video-recorded versions can be called ideal; but this Met cycle has plenty of strong points. It's the only one Wagner would have recognised – no small consideration. It's frequently... — More…