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Andre Cluytens in rehearsal Tannhauser at Bayreuth 1965

By The Wagnerian Saturday, 12 November 2011 8:04:00 pm

Bayreuth, 1965. With Hermann Prey, Nils Meller, Ludmila Dvorakova

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