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2 days ago · Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ ˈ v ɑː ɡ n ər / VAHG-nər; German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").
5 days ago · Biography. Richard Wagner (1813–83) was one of the most significant figures in the history of opera. Through his music dramas he introduced extraordinary innovations that transformed the course of music. His works remain an exhilarating challenge for any opera house, none more so than his 15-hour four-opera epic Der Ring des Nibelungen .
2 days ago · Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history, such as The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, and Tristan and Isolde. Though his influence on the ...
2 days ago · James Levine conducts Wagner’s early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a decade. Today’s leading Wagnerian tenor, Johan Botha, ta...
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3 days ago · Set against the backdrop of Baud-erlaire’s defense of Richard Wagner, song composers responded to the rise of wagnérisme in different ways. Most surprising was Chabrier, whose setting of the poet’s “L’invitation au voyage” supplanted his signature wit with a harmonic language modeled on Tristan und Isolde .
1 day ago · The sheer scale is astonishing: Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen, affectionately known as the Ring Cycle, is a four-opera retelling of a grand Nordic myth that spans about 15 hours. It features an orchestra of nearly a hundred and recounts a story that moves from the depths of the Rhine to the halls of Valhalla. Warwick Fyfe, Wotan
3 days ago · 10:04 Played at 10:04 Parsifal: Act I [100'48] Composer. Wagner, Richard. Performers. Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) + Vienna State Opera Orchestra + Vienna State Opera Chorus + Elīna Garanča (mezzo ...
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