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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The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Parsifal
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2027
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Osterfestspiele Salzburg Felsenreitschule
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2026
Rienzi: Bayreuth Festival 2026
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2026
Richard Wagner: Lohengrin @ Baden-Baden Easter Festival 2026
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2026
Siegfried - Royal Ballet & Opera House
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2026
The Metropolitan Opera: Tristan und Isolde
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2026
Městečko Palermo
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2025
Planet Arium
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2025
Die Walküre - Royal Opera House
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2025
Tristan und Isolde
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2024
Das Rheingold - Royal Opera House
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2023
Tristan und Isolde
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2023
Die Walküre
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2022
Das Rheingold
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2022
Der fliegende Holländer
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2021
The Metropolitan Opera: The Flying Dutchman
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2020
Tannhäuser
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2019
Die Walküre - Metropolitan Opera
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2019
Götterdämmerung - Wiener Staatsoper
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2019
Lohengrin
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2018
Corbin Nash
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2018
Tristan und Isolde
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2018
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Bayreuther Festspiele
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2017
Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg - Bayerische Staatsoper
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2017
Götterdämmerung - Wiener Staatsoper
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2017
Parsifal - Wiener Staatsoper
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2017
Tristan und Isolde - Metropolitan Opera
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2016
Parsifal
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2016
Lohengrin - Semperoper Dresden
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2016
Das Rheingold - Wiener Staatsoper
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2016
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde
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2015
Tristan Und Isolde
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2015
The Metropolitan Opera: Tannhäuser
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2015
Die Walküre - Wiener Staatsoper
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2015
Parsifal
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2015
The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg
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2014
Tannhauser
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2014
Tannhäuser
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2014
Parsifal - Salzburger Osterfestspiele
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2013
Götterdämmerung
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2013
The Colón Ring: Siegfried
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2013
The Colón Ring: The Valkyrie
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2013
The Colón Ring: The Rheingold
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2013
Parsifal
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2013
Parsifal
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2012
Götterdämmerung
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2012
Siegfried
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2011
Lohengrin
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2011