Wagner 200th Anniversary Celebration

Piotr Gajewski, conductor 

Attention Wagner novices and aficionados alike! Enjoy selections from each of Richard Wagner’s 10 best-known operas to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Highlights include the Overture to The Flying Dutchman, an opera about re-demption through love; Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre, heard in many popular movies and commercials; the stirring curtain-raiser  Prelude to Die Meistersinger; and the intense Prelude and Liebestod (“Love-Death”) from Wagner’s vaunted music-drama about the immortal lovers, Tristan and Isolde.

Wagner      The Flying Dutchman       Overture

                 Tannhäuser     Prelude to Act III

                 Parsifal        Good Friday Spell

                 Das Rheingold   Entry of the Gods into Valhalla

                 Die Walküre       Ride of the Valkyries

                 Die Meistersinger      Prelude

                 Siegfried         Forest Murmurs

                 Götterdämmerung      Siegfried’s Funeral Music

                 Lohengrin               Prelude to Act III

                Tristan and Isolde    Prelude and Liebestod (“Love-Death”)