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Francesca Gaetana Cosima Wagner ( née Liszt; 24 December 1837 – 1 April 1930) was the daughter of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt and Franco-German romantic author Marie d'Agoult. She became the second wife of the German composer Richard Wagner, and with him founded the Bayreuth Festival as a showcase for his stage works ...
Composed. 1857. ( 1857) –1858. Scoring. voice and piano. Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91, is the common name of a set of five songs for female voice and piano by Richard Wagner, Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme ( Five Poems for a Female Voice ). He set five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck while he was working on his opera Tristan und Isolde.
The Vier weiße Lieder, on the other hand, was written in the context of Wagner’s love affair with Cosima, then still officially the wife of the pianist and conductor Hans von Bülow but who would eventually become the second wife of Wagner. A birthday present for their latest child, Siegfried, the four-song cycle is in fact a reworking of ...
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- When you want to let your legit vibrato fly: “Inside Out” This song, which is from A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, starts out so beautifully, with a catchy little melody that pulls your audiences in.
- When you want a soaring love ballad: “The Man In The Street” This song is from I Married an Angel, a 1930s musical that is almost never produced in theatres.
- A song to demonstrate your emotional range and acting skills: “Simple Little Things” Legit soprano meets a Texas twang? We are on board. (And Audra McDonald!)
- When you want a song to show off your high soprano range: “If It Is True” We’ve only just discovered My Life With Albertine, a strange little musical about Proust and his mistress.
Jul 9, 2011 · Cosima Liszt-Bülow-Wagner is inseparable from the saga of Richard Wagner (1813-83) and his artistic legacy. Controversial as Wagner’s art was to be for generations, his stature was never in doubt. But our image of Cosima has been a curiously shifting one. It continues to be so, in ways worth assessing, if only so that we might understand ...
Dec 26, 2014 · Siegfried Idyll was simultaneously a grand gesture and an intimate musical love letter. It was Wagner’s combined Christmas and birthday gift to Cosima, as well as a celebration of the recent birth of their son, Siegfried, nicknamed “Fidi”. The original title, Triebschen Idyll with Fidi’s birdsong and the orange sunrise, as symphonic ...
Wagner, Cosima (1837–1930) Daughter of one great musician and wife of another who was instrumental in helping found Bayreuth, the festival featuring her husband's operas, and ensuring its survival as an annual event of worldwide fame . Born Cosima Liszt in Bellagio, on Lake Como, on December 24, 1837; died in Bayreuth, Germany, on April 1 ...
