richard wagner

     

Siegfried's funeral march was played when this man's coffin reached the train station in 1883

Trivia about richard wagner

  • Rossini said of this "Ring" leader, "He has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour"
  • The composition of this German's "Ring" cycle spanned over 20 years
  • Ludwig II of Bavaria adored this composer's work & paid him to complete "The Ring of the Nibelung"
  • "Das Rheingold", a one-act opera, serves as the prologue to this composer's "Ring" cycle
  • This composer of the opera "Siegfried" also named his son Siegfried
  • Lucile Grahn choreographed the Bacchanal in this composer's opera "Tannhauser"
  • Nietzsche befriended but later broke with this anti-Semitic opera composer
  • Mark Twain said this "Parsifal" composer's music "is better than it sounds"
  • This German composer's "Flying Dutchman" took off after he expanded it from 1 act to 3
  • Birgit Nilsson is best known for her heroic roles in this composer's operas
  • This composer's adopted niece, Johanna, created the role of Elisabeth in his opera "Tannhauser"
  • Friedrich Nietzsche was a close friend of this "Lohengrin" composer but later turned against him
  • He composed the following song sung by Siegmund:
  • This "Lohengrin" composer's first opera, "Die Fein", wasn't performed until 1888, five years after his death
  • Hamburg-born Adolf Neuendorff conducted the first American performance of this man's "Lohengrin" in 1871
  • The first scene of this composer's "Das Rheingold" takes place at the bottom of the Rhine
  • The Seattle Opera is famous for its back-to-back productions of this composer's "Ring" cycle, in German & English
  • In 1876 he opened an opera house in the Franconian town of Bayreuth
  • "The Fairies", the 1st completed opera by this "Parsifal" composer, was never performed in his lifetime
  • In 1844 this man delivered the eulogy for Carl Maria von Weber, founder of German romantic opera
  • He wrote the libretto to his own opera "Siegfried"
  • After the failure of this man's "Tannhauser" in Paris, Gounod wrote, "God give me a failure like that"
  • "The Rhine Gold" & "The Valkyrie" are 2 of the operas in his "Ring" cycle
  • Klingsor's magic garden is filled with flower maidens in this German composer's 1882 opera "Parsifal"
  • He wrote both text & music for his 3-act opera "Tristan And Isolde"
  • Flosshilde is a Rhinemaiden in this composer's "Das Rheingold"

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