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Tannhäuser, WWV 70 / Act III: Heilige Elisabeth, bitte für mich! (Live)
Stephen Gould, Daniel Behle, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton, Markus Eiche, Kay Stiefermann, Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Stephen Milling, Bayreuth Festival Choir, Festspiel-Orchester Bayreuth & Valery Gergiev
Tannhäuser, WWV 70: Overture (Live)
Festspiel-Orchester Bayreuth & Valery Gergiev
Tannhäuser, WWV 70 / Act III: O du, mein holder Abendstern (Live)
Markus Eiche, Festspiel-Orchester Bayreuth & Valery Gergiev
Tannhäuser, WWV 70 / Act III: Wie Todesahnung Dämmrung deckt die Lande (Live)
Markus Eiche, Festspiel-Orchester Bayreuth & Valery Gergiev
Lohengrin, WWV 75: Vorspiel (Live at Bayreuther Festspiele / 2018)
Festspiel-Orchester Bayreuth & Christian Thielemann
Tannhäuser, WWV 70 / Act I: Bacchanal - Naht euch dem Strande! (Live)
Bayreuth Festival Choir, Festspiel-Orchester Bayreuth & Valery Gergiev
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91: No. 3, Im Treibhaus (Orch. Mottl)
Lise Davidsen, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Mark Elder
Tannhäuser, WWV 70 / Act III: Willkommen, ungetreuer Mann! (Live)
Elena Zhidkova, Stephen Gould, Markus Eiche, Daniel Behle, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton, Kay Stiefermann, Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Bayreuth Festival Choir, Festspiel-Orchester Bayreuth & Valery Gergiev
Tannhäuser, WWV 70 / Act II: Freudig begrüßen wir die edle Halle (Live)
Bayreuth Festival Choir, Festspiel-Orchester Bayreuth & Valery Gergiev
Lohengrin, WWV 75, Act 1: "Hört, Grafen, Edle, Freie von Brabant!" (Live at Bayreuther Festspiele / 2018)
Egils Silins, Georg Zeppenfeld, Festspiel-Chor Bayreuth, Eberhard Friedrich, Festspiel-Orchester Bayreuth & Christian Thielemann
About Richard Wagner
Artist Biography
One of the most influential of all classical composers, Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig in 1813, and grew up enthralled by the theatre (his stepfather was an actor). Wagner’s formidable ambition secured him conducting positions in opera houses first in Magdeburg and Riga, then in Dresden, where the powerful, dark-toned Romanticism of Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman, 1841) and Tannhäuser (1845) began to spread his name. After composing Lohengrin (1848), he was involved in the failed Dresden revolution in 1849 and fled to Switzerland. There he worked on the text and music of four “music dramas” comprising an epic cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Nibelung’s Ring). With the first two operas, Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold, 1854) and Die Walküre (The Valkyrie, 1856), finished, Wagner paused work on the third, Siegfried (completed 1871), to compose instead Tristan und Isolde (1859), based on Arthurian legend, but the music’s chromatic intensity and technical difficulty at first prevented performances. King Ludwig II of Bavaria had Tristan und Isolde (1865) and the comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, 1868) staged in Munich. Moving to Bayreuth in northern Bavaria, Wagner oversaw the construction (underwritten by Ludwig) of a purpose-built festival theatre for the Ring; with the cycle’s fourth opera Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods, 1874) completed, the entire work was performed in 1876. In 1882 Parsifal, inspired by the medieval Grail legend, was premiered at Bayreuth, before Wagner’s death in Venice the following year.
Hometown
Leipzig, Germany
Genre
Classical
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