Richard Wagner - The Great Operas From The Bayreuth Festival - 10 Operas in 33CD-BoxDECCA 00289 478 0279, release 2008
A special, limited edition 33-CD box set containing all of Wagner's operas from The Flying Dutchman (1841) to his final masterpiece Parsifal (1882) in performances from the opera house created specifically for the production of Wagner's masterpieces, the Bayreuth Festival Theatre.
Landmark performances by some of the greatest Wagnerians can be savored here, among them singers Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Anja Silja, Waltraud Meier, Astrid Varnay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Jess Thomas, James King, Ramon Vinay, Peter Hoffmann, Bernd Weikl, Theo Adam, Karl Ridderbusch, Hans Sotin and Simon Estes.
The all-star roster of conductors includes Karl Böhm, James Levine, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Silvio Varviso.
Tannhäuser: Anja Silja * Wolfgang Windgassen * Eberhard Wächter * Josef Greindl - Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor
Lohengrin: Anja Silja * Astrid Varnay * Jess Thomas * Ramon Vinay - Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor
Tristan und Isolde: Birgit Nilsson * Wolfgang Windgassen - Karl Böhm, conductor
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Hannelore Bode * Jean Cox * Bernd Weikl * Karl Ridderbusch * Hans Sotin - Silvio Varviso, conductor
Der Ring des Nibelungen:
* Das Rheingold: Annelies Burmeister * Wolfgang Windgassen * Theo Adam * Gustav Neidlinger - Karl Böhm, conductor
* Die Walküre: Birgit Nilsson * Leonie Rysanek * James King * Theo Adam - Karl Böhm, conductor
* Siegfried: Birgit Nilsson * Wolfgang Windgassen * Theo Adam - Karl Böhm, conductor
* Götterdämmerung: Birgit Nilsson * Wolfgang Windgassen * Josef Greindl * Gustav Neidlinger - Karl Böhm, conductor
Parsifal: Waltraud Meier * Peter Hoffmann * Hans Sotin * Simon Estes - James Levine, conductor
All performers: Georg Paskuda, Josef Greindl, Franz Crass, Fritz Uhl, Res Fischer, Anja Silja, Gerhard Stolze, Wolfgang Windgassen, Eberhard Wächter, Grace Bumbry, Elsa-Margrete Gardelli, Gerd Nienstedt, Jess Thomas, Astrid Varnay, Ramon Vinay, Tom Krause, Niels Moller, Zoltan Kélémén, Klaus Kirchner, Birgit Nilsson, Erwin Wohlfahrt, Christa Ludwig, Martti Talvela, Claude Heater, Peter Schreier, Norbert Orth, Wolfgang Appel, Nikolaus Hillebrand, Klaus Hirte, József Dene, Bernd Weikl, Hans Sotin, Karl Ridderbusch, Jean Cox, Heinz Feldhoff, Robert Licha, Hannelore Bode, Heribert Steinbach, Hartmut Bauer, Frieder Stricker, Anna Reynolds, Thomas Stewart, Martha Mödl, Ruth Hesse, Helga Dernesch, Dorothea Siebert, Gustav Neidlinger, Leonie Rysanek, Theo Adam, James King, Annelies Burmeister, Vera Soukupová, Kurt Böhme, Hermin Esser, Sieglinde Wagner, Elisabeth Schärtel, Danica Mastilovic, Gertraud Hopf, Sona Cervena, Liane Synek, Ludmila Dvoráková, Erika Köth, Marga Höffgen, Hilde Leidland, Simon Estes, Ruthild Engert, Deborah Sasson, Susan Roberts, Monika Schmitt, Helmut Pampuch, Peter Maus, Sabine Fues, Matthias Hölle, Franz Mazura, Michael Pabst, Matti Salminen, Waltraud Meier, Peter Hofmann, Alison Browner, Margit Neubauer
