Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas. Unlike most composers, Wagner wrote both the libretti and the music for all of his stage works. He first achieved recognition with works in the Romantic tradition of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, but revolutionised the genre through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, which sought to unite poetic, musical, visual, and dramatic elements. In this approach, the drama unfolds as a continuously sung narrative, with the music evolving organically from the text rather than alternating between arias and recitatives. Wagner outlined these ideas in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852, most fully realising them in the first half of his four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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Frequent Collaborators
🎬 Movies
Tannhäuser
writer
2019
Die Walküre - Metropolitan Opera
writer
2019
Götterdämmerung - Wiener Staatsoper
writer
2019
Lohengrin
writer
2018
Corbin Nash
actor
2018
Tristan und Isolde
writer
2018
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Bayreuther Festspiele
writer
2017
Parsifal - Wiener Staatsoper
writer
2017
Tristan und Isolde - Metropolitan Opera
writer
2016
Parsifal
writer
2016
Das Rheingold - Wiener Staatsoper
writer
2016
Tristan Und Isolde
writer
2015
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde
writer
2015
The Metropolitan Opera: Tannhäuser
writer
2015
Die Walküre - Wiener Staatsoper
writer
2015
Parsifal
writer
2015
The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg
writer
2014
Tannhauser
writer
2014
Tannhäuser
writer
2014
Götterdämmerung
writer
2014
Parsifal - Salzburger Osterfestspiele
writer
2013
The Colón Ring: The Valkyrie
writer
2013
The Colón Ring: Siegfried
writer
2013
The Colón Ring: The Rheingold
writer
2013
Parsifal
writer
2013
Parsifal
writer
2012
Götterdämmerung
writer
2012
Siegfried
writer
2011
Lohengrin
writer
2011
The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre
writer
2011
Das Rheingold
writer
2010
Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen
writer
2010