In this week's final programme Donald Macleod investigates Wagner's heroes. Siegfried (Act 1, forging scene)
Manfred Jung and Heinz Zednik (tenors), Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez
Parsifal (Act 2, excerpt)
Jessye Norman (soprano), Placido
Domingo (tenor), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine Die Meistersinger (Act 3, excerpt) Placido Domingo (tenor),
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone),
Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin, conductor Eugen Jochum
Parsifal (Act 3, closing scene)
Placido Domingo (tenor), Metropolitan
Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine