Richard Wagner: New, Bestselling & Favorite

Born on May 22, 1813, Richard Wagner changed opera forever, and made such a splash in global culture that the ripples have been felt in communities far beyond his own homeland, lifetime, and worldview. The music dramas of the Ring Cycle are just the beginning—discover many facets of his artistry, and experience subsequent generations' interpretations of his music, through the collection below.

  • Wagner: Die Walküre / Stemme, Runnicles, Deutsche Oper Berlin
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    Wagner’s "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (‘The Ring of the Nibelung’) comprises four operas of which "Die Walküre" (‘The Valkyrie’) is the second, famous for its spectacular set-pieces such as the "Ride of the Valkyries" and...


    Format: Blu-Ray, DVD

    Release Date: March 29, 2024

  • Wagner: Overtures & Preludes / Rosbaud, Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra

    $13.99

    Hans Rosbaud was the chief conductor of the Southwest Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1948 until his death in 1962. He transformed the orchestra, later renamed as the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, into a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 12, 2017

  • Wagner Without Words / Llyr Williams

    $27.99

    Pianist Llyr Williams explores Wagner’s rich and evocative sound-world from a less well-known angle. Featuring insightful arrangements of Richard Wagner’s operas by Franz Liszt and Glenn Gould (as well as Williams’ own arrangement of music...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2014

  • Wagner: Gotterdammerung / Janowski, Ryan, Lang, Haller, Salminen, Bruck

    $64.99

    WAGNER Götterdämmerung • Marek Janowski, cond; Lance Ryan ( Siegfried ); Petra Lang ( Brünnhilde ); Matti Salminen ( Hagen ); Markus Brück ( Gunther ); Edith Haller ( Gutrune ); Jochen Schmeckenbecher ( Alberich...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: November 19, 2013

  • Wagner: Das Rheingold / Janowski, Konieczny, Conrad, Elsner, Vermillion

    $42.99

    A most impressive sense of drama and excitement. So to The Ring! Marek Janowski’s epic Wagner cycle enters the final strait as it begins the great tetralogy that crowned Wagner’s life’s work. Few conductors get...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: May 28, 2013

  • Wagner: Die Walküre / Konieczny, Vermillion, Janowski, RSO Berlin

    $64.99

    This was the eighth release in Pentatone’s successful Wagner Edition and the second in the exciting Wagner Year of 2013. Previous releases in the edition have garnered rave reviews from major quarters: “…unquestionably the finest...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: July 30, 2013

  • Wagner: Siegfried / Janowski, Salminen, Urmana, Gould, Elsner

    $53.99

    This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players. 3743760.az_WAGNER_Siegfried_Marek_Janowski.html WAGNER Siegfried • Marek Janowski, cond; Stephen Gould (Siegfried); Christian Elsner (Mime); Tomasz Konieczny (Wanderer); Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich);...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: September 24, 2013

  • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde / Nilsson, Sawallisch, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

    $37.99

    Nobody mastered and shaped the great roles of high drama in the post-war period as effortlessly as Birgit Nilsson - this is her stupendous breakthrough as Isolde at Bayreuth with the musical colleagues she so...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 08, 2018

  • Wagner / Nina Stemme

    $16.99

    This new album is a stroke of luck. For 15 years Nina Stemme has been reinvigorating Wagner’s female roles with the dramatic soul and vocal power previously attained perhaps only by her compatriot Birgit Nilsson....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 17, 2017

  • Wagner: Orchestral Highlights / Thielemann, Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin

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    This new release features highlights from the operas of epic composer, Richard Wagner. Conductor Christian Thielemann has a long relationship with the music of Wagner, and is a master at interpreting the complex works. Thielemann...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 11, 2016

  • Wagner: Die Walkure (Act 1) / Welser-most, Stemme, Botha, Anger

    $16.99

    At the most recent production at the Vienna State Opera, the twins were sung by Nina Stemme and - for the first time in the role - Johan Botha. Since then both soloists have enjoyed...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 24, 2013

  • Beethoven, Liszt & Wagner: The Zürich Affair – Wagner’s One & Only Love [Film]
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    An exile from his native land following the failed revolution of 1848, the impoverished Richard Wagner is in Zürich working on his opera Tristan und Isolde. There he meets Otto and Mathilde Wesendonck, ardent admirers...


    Format: Blu-Ray, DVD

    Release Date: July 14, 2023

  • Global Wagner – Bayreuth to the World ft. Katharina Wagner, Alex Ross & More
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    Global Wagner – From Bayreuth to the World is not a biography of Richard Wagner, nor is it a musicological analysis of his work. This is a documentary dedicated solely to the world’s fascination with...


    Format: Blu-Ray, DVD

    Release Date: March 11, 2022

  • Wagner: Das Rheingold

    $10.99

    For the first time, the complete Beyreuth Ring from 1962 is being released on this magnificent 4-volume collection. This legendary performance is conducted by Rudolf Kempe, and features Otto Wiener as Wotan, Grace Hoffmann as...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 11, 2016

  • Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen - Die Walkure (Bayreuth, 1962)

    $13.99

    For the first time, the complete Beyreuth Ring from 1962 is being released on this magnificent 4-volume collection. This legendary performance is conducted by Rudolf Kempe, and features Otto Wiener as Wotan, Grace Hoffmann as...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 11, 2016

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