Scene from: Great Composers: Wagner
Composer: Richard Wagner
Conductor:
The programme was shot on location in Leipzig, Paris, Munich and Bayreuth and includes filmed extracts with: Daniel Barenboim conducting the Berlin State Opera in The Ring of the Nibelung with Siegfried Jerusalem and Deborah Polaski; Zubin Mehta conducting the Munich State Opera in Tannhäuser; Roger Norrington conducting the Prague Symphony Orchestra in the overtures to Rienzi, Tannhäuser, The Flying Dutchman, the preludes to Tristan and Isolde and Parsifal. Critical commentators include: Stephen Hawking, George Steiner, John Deathridge, Barry Millington, Stewart Spencer, Michael White, Lucy Beckett and Roland Cotterill.
Catalogue: 5101154772