Program: Richard Wagner sites celebrate anniversary – “Ring” performances

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Richard Wagner sites celebrate anniversary – “Ring” performances

The Richard Wagner sites in Graupa near Dresden are celebrating the tenth anniversary of their museum and can also rely on the powerful sound of the Semperoper. From January 27th to February 1st and February 5th to February 10th, two complete cycles of the “Ring des Nibelungen” can be seen there under the direction of Christian Thielemann.

As the Wagner sites, directed by the Pirna Culture and Tourism Society, announced on Friday, the anniversary will be accompanied by several events. On January 29th and 31st, as well as on February 9th, the museum is offering special tours that should shed light on the origins of the tetralogy.

From next Wednesday (January 25) to February 19, the museum is showing an exhibition entitled “From the vision to the stage festival” with documents on the performance history of the “Ring”. “An original Bayreuth rehearsal plan shows that the musicians who were working free of charge were occupied for a full three months in the summer of 1876,” it said. The exhibition also contains original figurines by the costume designer Franz von Seitz for the Munich premieres of “Rheingold” and “Valkyrie” in 1869 and 1870.

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was court music director in Dresden from 1843 until he fled after the May uprising in 1949. Here he premiered his operas “Rienzi”, “The Flying Dutchman” and “Tannhäuser” and also composed “Lohengrin”. The work is considered the high point of romantic German opera and the transition to music drama. In 1846 Wagner spent a long time in Graupa just outside of Dresden and also conceived the “Lohengrin”. At that time he lived in a farmhouse, today’s “Lohengrinhaus”.

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