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Katharina Wagner, a great-granddaughter who directs the festival, announced future plans during a Zoom news conference on Monday, a day before this year's schedule opens. “Rienzi” will be ...
Front page of the Dresden score of Wagner's 1845 opera Tannhäuser. 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.
Climate protesters caused a pair of interruptions totaling 22 minutes during the opening night of a revival of Wagner's “Tannhäuser” at the Metropolitan Opera. Christian Gerhaher, a German ...
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ ˈ v ɑː ɡ n ər / VAHG-nər; [1] [2] German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").
In the small German town of Bayreuth, the maestro's heirs battle for succession, threatening to change Europe's most storied opera festival forever. A Dynastic Struggle Worthy of a Wagner Opera ...
Newman, Ernest (1949), The Wagner Operas (also known as Wagner Nights), Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1991 paperback edition, ISBN 0-691-02716-1. The New York Times (1879) Untitled article, The New York Times, 23 December 1879, p. 4, accessed 12 February 2010.
Richard Wagner. The German composer Richard Wagner was a controversial figure during his lifetime, and has continued to be so after his death. [1] Even today he is associated in the minds of many with Nazism and his operas are often thought to extol the virtues of German nationalism.
Aerial view of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. The Bayreuth Festspielhaus or Bayreuth Festival Theatre [1] (German: Bayreuther Festspielhaus, pronounced [baɪˈʁɔʏtɐ ˈfɛstʃpiːlˌhaʊs]) is an opera house north of Bayreuth, Germany, built by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner and dedicated solely to the performance of his stage works.