Katagiri, Hitomi

Der Ring des Nibelungen : a stage festival drama for three days and a preliminary evening by Richard Wagner( Visual )

2 editions published in 2005 in German and held by 88 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A presentation of the second of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), Richard Wagner's epic, which follows the struggles of gods, heroes, and several mythical creatures over the eponymous magic Ring that grants the power to rule the world. In this part, Siegmund falls in love with Sieglinde and must battle her husband, Hunding. The Valkyrie Brunhilde sides with Siegmund and in punished for her disobedience by Wotan, the ruler of the gods

Der Ring des Nibelungen : a stage festival drama for three days and a preliminary evening, produced at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus( Visual )

1 edition published in 2007 in German and held by 25 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains the Bayreuther Festspiele's stage production of Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen

Die Walküre by Richard Wagner( Recording )

7 editions published between 1992 and 2011 in German and Undetermined and held by 15 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Wagner's powerful and wrenching tale of ill-fated love requires a cast of great singing actors, and that's just what this broadcast provides. Jon Vickers and Régine Crespin are the brother and sister who fall rapturously in love, only to be torn apart by death. The legendary Birgit Nilsson sings Brünnhilde, the Valkyrie of the title who is punished by her father (the magnificent Theo Adam as Wotan) for doing what he really wants her to do. Herbert von Karajan conducts his final Met performance

Comala by Niels W Gade( Recording )

1 edition published in 1994 in German and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Der Ring des Nibelungen : ein Bühnenfestspeil für drei Tage und einen Vorabend( Visual )

1 edition published in 2012 in German and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Follows the struggles of gods, heroes, and several mythical creatures over the eponymous magic Ring that grants the power to rule the world. New productions of Wagner's The Ring at the Bayreuth Festival are mounted every 6 years. Bayreuth recordings of the complete cycle are rare; this is the 2nd filmed version. The Kupfer/Barenboim Ring was performed over a 5-yr. period and recorded at the conclusion

Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini( Recording )

7 editions published between 1988 and 2011 in Italian and German and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Madama Butterfly concerns the disastrous results of a young American naval officer's marriage to a pretty geisha

Die Walküre by Richard Wagner( Visual )

5 editions published in 2005 in German and Undetermined and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The free man must be his own maker" Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung reflects the composer's autobiography as much as the political turmoil of his times. As work progressed, another figure grew to be as important as the hero Siegfried, the god Wotan, the mouthpiece for Wagner's ideas. "He's exactly like us: he is the sum of today's intellectual consciousness, whereas Siegfried is what we hope the human being of the future will be, but who cannot be fashioned by us, and who must make himself by means of our destruction!" Our own doom as the basis of a happier future? Wagner dressed this Herculean task musically in the spreading, shimmering web of his leitmotivic working (there are approximately 20 distinct motives in Die Walküre). Dramaturgically, the conversational style of Das Rheingold gives way to the tone of bourgeois tragedy: incestuous passion, more than one form of deep-seated marital antagonism, and a lot of talk, a lot of self-justification in the form of recapitulation. This, the First Day of the tetralogy (Das Rheingold being a "preliminary evening"), was without doubt the "most moving, the most tragic" of all Wagner's works in the view of his wife Cosima, expressed in her diary on 31 August 1873. The text of Die Walküre was finished on 1 July 1852, and the score was completed in late March 1856. With the financial help of his ever-generous friend (and future father-in-law) Franz Liszt, Wagner went to rest from his labours on the shores of Lake Geneva

Die Walküre by Richard Wagner( Visual )

2 editions published in 1993 in German and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A performance from 1992 of an opera from Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" cycle

Die Walküre( Visual )

1 edition published in 2011 in German and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New productions of Wagner's The Ring at the Bayreuth Festival are mounted every 6 years. Bayreuth recordings of the complete cycle are rare; this is the 2nd filmed version. The Kupfer/Barenboim Ring was performed over a 5-yr. period and recorded at the conclusion

Movements on A ; The old decrees ; Kaddish by Ben-Zion Orgad( Recording )

1 edition published in 1998 in German and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide