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Richard Wagner 's works for the stage, representing more than 50 years of creative life, comprise his 13 completed operas and a similar number of failed or abandoned projects. His first effort, begun when he was 13, was a prose drama, Leubald, but thereafter all his works were conceived as some form of musical drama.
This is a list of Richard Wagner's thirteen completed operas. Click on the pictures or the title to read or download information about each work. Here you will find cast lists, libretti, complete scores, and videos.
TitleLibretto CompletedMusic CompletedFirst PerformedDie FeenJanuary 1833January 183429 June 1888 MunichDas LiebesverbotOctober 1834Spring 183629 March 1836 MagdeburgRienzi, der Letzte der TribunenAugust 1838November 184020 October 1842 DresdenDer fliegende HolländerMay 1841November 184102 January 1843 DresdenWilhelm 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").
- 22 May 1813, Leipzig
- List of compositions
- 13 February 1883 (aged 69), Venice
3 days ago · Richard Wagner, German dramatic composer and theorist whose operas and music had a revolutionary influence on the course of Western music, either by extension of his discoveries or reaction against them. Among his major works are Tristan und Isolde (1865), Parsifal (1882), and The Ring of the Nibelung (1869–76).
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Oct 17, 2019 · Completed in 1874, Richard Wagner’s legendary Ring cycle consists of four individual operas–Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung– and totals about 15 hours of music.
May 22, 2023 · The opera, one of Wagner’s best works, was enormously influential among Western classical composers and provided direct inspiration to composers such as Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss,...
His earliest operas include Das Liebesverbot ( The Ban on Love; 1836), a comedy based on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, and Rienzi (1842), but it was The Flying Dutchman that established Wagner’s genuine voice.