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Posted by Göran Forsling
on October 5, 2009, 7:39 pm, in reply to "Bohm's Ring"
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The mystery surrounding Böhm's Bayreuth Ring is still not sufficiently clarified. I checked the site that Philippe Galletout recommended and found the following:
1965: Böhm conducted all the Ring performances
1966: Böhm and Otmar Suitner shared all four operas
1967: Böhm and Suitner shared Walküre and Götterdämmerung while Suitner conducted Rheingold and Siegfried.
1965 and 1966 cound both have produced complete Ring cycles with Böhm. I haven't gone through the cast lists - that's a too heavy and time consuming procedure.
As for 1971 that was a quite different production, premiered the year before, with Horst Stein conducting.
To complete the picture of Böhm's activities in Bayreuth during the 1960s, he conducted Tristan und Isolde in 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966 (that's the year the legendary recording was made) and 1968, when he was replaced by Berislav Klobucar on one evening, due to illness.
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