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Wagner's Dream
Wagner's Dream is a documentary film directed by Susan Froemke. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 25, 2012 and was shown in high definition in theaters across the United States and Canada on May 7, 2012. The subject of the film is the staging of a new production of Richard Wagner's four-opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen" at the Metropolitan Opera beginning in 2010.
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Froemke, who has previously filmed at the opera house, claims that she
Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro". He became principal music director in Augsburg in 1954, and in Bremen in 1955, concluding in both posts in 1960. In 1957, he recorded a scene from Wagner's "Lohengrin", with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Christa Ludwig, under the production of Walter Legge. He also recorded Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 "Italian", and his "A Midsummer Night's Dream" incidental music. He conducted Richard Strauss's "Der