Richard WAGNER

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LOHENGRIN

Elsa: Cheryl Studer
Lohengrin: Plácido Domingo
Telramund: Hartmut Welker
Ortrud: Dunja Vejzovic
King Heinrich: Robert Lloyd
Herald: Georg Tichy

Vienna State Opera, Conductor: Claudio Abbado

Virgins Classics
VVD 841 (VHS Hi-Fi) (220 mins.)

Home Vision
833-9659, VHS 2 cass., 219 mins. 
Hi-Fi stereo. In German, subtitled (1990)

Video Opera House
LOH 02V (2 VHS) (USA)

Pioneer
PLMCD 00011 (Laserdisc) (219 mins.)

Polygram
079 258-3 VHS (04/1996)

LOHENGRIN

Heinrich der Vogler, King of the Germans: Manfred Schenk
Lohengrin: Paul Frey
Elsa von Brabant: Cheryl Studer
Friedrich von Telramund: Ekkehard Wlaschiha.
Ortrud: Gabriele Schnaut
The King's Herald: Eike Wilm Schulte
Four Brabantian nobles: Clemens Bieber, Peter Maus, Robert Riener, 
Heinz-Klaus Ecker
Four pages: Rachel Robins, Natsue von Stegmann, Katalin Benei, 
Akiko Makiyama
Noblewomen: Sarah Fulgoni, Helen Lawson, Martina Beier, Kristina 
Gloge, Kriemhild Strettner, Isolde Claassen, Yehudit Silcher, 
Philippa Thomson

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus
Chorus Master: Norbert Balatsch
Conductor: Peter Schneider

Staged and directed by Werner Herzog
Stage design and costumes: Henning von Gierke
Artistic supervision: Wolfgang Wagner
Video Director: Brian Large
Produced at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, June 1990

Philips
PAL
LD 070 436-1 (2, 4 sides)  
VHS 070 436-3 (2 VHS)   

NTSC
LD 070 536-1 (2 CLV 4 sides) (09/1993) (215')
VHS 070 536-3 (2 VHS) (09/1993) (215')

Highlights VHS (1 tape) 070 180-3 (PAL only) (1995)

TANNHÄUSER

Hermann, Landgraf of Thuringia: Hans Sotin
Tannhäuser: Richard Versalle
Wolfram von Eschenbach: Wolfgang Brendel
Walther von der Vogelweide: William Pell
Biterolf: Siegfried Vogel
Heinrich der Schreiber: Clemens Bieber
Reinmar von Zweter: Sándor Sólyom-Nagy
Elisabeth: Cheryl Studer
Venus: Ruthild Engert-Ely
A Young Shepperd: Joy Robinson

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli

Direction and Stage Design: Wolfgang Wagner
Choreography of the Bacchanal: Iván Marká
Video Director: Brian Large
Produced at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus during the 1989 Festival
A Production of UNITEL

Philips
PAL	
LD 070 435-1 (4 sides)
VHS 070 435-3 (2 tapes)

NTSC
LD 070 535-1 (09/1993) (188')
VHS 070 535-3 (2 tapes) (09/1993) (188')

Video Opera House	
TAN 07V (2 VHS) (USA)
TAN 07L (2 Laser) (USA)

Highlights VHS 070 181-3 (1 tape) (PAL only) (1995)

WAGNER GALA

Dich, teure Halle, grüß ich wieder
(Tannhäuser, Act II, Elisabeth)
In ferner Einsamkeit des Waldes / Um Gott, was klagest du mich an? 
(Lohengrin, Act II Ortrud & Elsa)

With

Tannhäuser: 
Overture
Wie Todesahnung Dämmrung deckt die Lande... 
O du mein holder Abendstern (Wolfram)

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: 
Prelude to Act I
Was duftet doch der Flieder (Hans Sachs)

Die Walküre: Dich selige Frau / 
Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond / 
Du bist der Lenz, nach dem ich verlangte 
(Siegmund & Sieglinde)
The Ride of the Walkyries

Elisabeth, Elsa: Cheryl Studer
Ortrud, Sieglinde: Waltraud Meier
Siegmund: Siegfried Jerusalem
Wolfram, Hans Sachs: Bryn Terfel

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Claudio Abbado

Live recording: Berlin, Philharmonie, Friday 31 December 1993
Executive Producer: Peter Gelb
Directed by Brian Large

DG
LD 073 214-1 (1 Laser Disc, 2 sides) NTSC only

VHS
073 114-3 (PAL)
073 214-3  (NTSC)


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