Richard Wagner has aroused both the most unyielding passions and the fiercest hatred alike. Quickly drawn to the world of theatre, in his childhood Wagner staged the mythological dramas he wrote and had his mother, brothers and sisters play their parts. He managed to accomplish great projects from his self-taught education. A choir master in 1833, a conductor in 1834, he composed his first operas in the great Germanic singspiel tradition.
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2004 Lucerne Festival Opening Concert
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
The Ring Without Words
A Gala Night with the Staatskapelle Berlin
Bamberg Symphony
London Symphony Orchestra
"Evoking a million years of history through bal...
Joined by the Rundfunk-Jugendchor Wernigerode a...
Moving to Modern Times (II/II) – Lucerne Festiv...
With Daniel Barenboim and Alisa Weilerstein
Wagner, Dvořák, Gershwin, Bizet, Bernstein
Angela Denoke, Burkhardt Fritz, Waltraud Meier,...
