“Die Feen” by Richard Wagner

Premiere / date of written: 1833

“He has achieved a great victory; he has moved the earthly dust! Therefore let us sing forever of him, honoured greatly by love!” Richard Wagner

Die Feen was Wagner's first completed opera, composed in 1833, when he was 20 years old and working as a part-time chorus master in Würzburg. Die Feen was premiered in Munich on 29 June 1888 with a cast including several singers who had created roles in Wagner's later operas.

Libretti

#	Language	Authors
1	German	Richard Wagner nach Carlo Gozzi
2	English	John McKenna, Feb. 2013

original libretto
line-by-line of the original libretto

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Audio recordings

Year	Cast	Conductor, Opera chorus and orchestra	Label, Comment	Buy
1976	April Cantelo (Ada), John Mitchinson (Arindal), Della Jones (Farzana), Lorna Haywood, Elizabeth Gale	Sir Edward Downes BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, BBC Northern Singers	Ponto POCD1027 Live, complete and uncut, concert recording 2 May 1976. with bonus tracks from a 1983 Vienna State Opera performance conducted by Sixten Ehrling with a cast led by Gundula Janowitz as Ada/
1983	The Fairy King — Kurt Moll Ada, a fairy — Linda Esther Gray, Zemina, a fairy — Krisztina Laki, Farzana, a fairy — Kari Lövaas, Arindal, King of Tramond — John Alexander, Lora, his sister — June Anderson, Morald — Roland Hermann, Gernot — Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Drolla, Lora's friend — Cheryl Studer, Gunther — Norbert Orth, Harald — Karl Helm, Bote — Friedrich Lenz, Stimme Gromas — Roland Bracht	Wolfgang Sawallisch Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus	ORFEO C 062 833 F Live performance with multiple cuts to the score Munich Opera Festival.
1998	The Fairy King — Jyrki Korhonen, Arindal — Raimo Sirkiä, Ada — Sue Patchell, Zemina — Ulrike Sonntag, Farzana — Manuela Kriscak, Gernot — Arthur Korn, Drolla — Birgit Beer	Gabor Ötvös Teatro Comunale di Cagliari	Dynamic CDS 217/1-3 Live recording from Teatro Comunale di Cagliari.

External links

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