Live Recording from the Bayreuth Festival 2008
First result of the collaboration between BF Medien and the British label OPUS ARTE
Long awaited: Distributed by Naxos Deutschland GmbH, OPUS ARTE presents Richard Wagner’s “The Ring des Nibelungen” in live recordings from Bayreuth Festspielhaus with its unique acoustics on 14 CDs. Under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann, the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, numerous soloists, and the Bayreuth Festival Chorus (conductor: Eberhard Friedrich) participate and unite to create “filigree moments of glory” (Hamburger Abendblatt). Christian Thielemann’s conducting is, for example, highly praised in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”: “No Wagner conductor today has such an unerring sense of timing, for the breathing between sound blocks, for emotional caesuras within the mighty flow of sound. Masterfully secure!”
Since November 18, 2009, the CD box set is available both in stores and of course in our webshop. The ideal Christmas gift for every Wagnerian and those who want to become one!