Richard Wagner
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Washington 'Ring' cycle ends with riveting concert...and love. This photo released by Washington National Opera shows conductor Philippe Auguin. Auguin conducts "Gotterdammerung" by Richard Wagner. The Washington National Opera's presentation of Wagner's "Goetterdaemmerung" _ reduced by... In this article: Siegfried, Hagen, Gotterdammerung, Richard Wagner, Washington National Opera, Gidon Saks, and Washington |
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San Diego Union-Tribune | 5 days ago
Singers soar in iffy 'Hansel and Gretel'
...candy box setting of its home, the Birch North Park Theatre. Its success in meeting them was uneven. A disciple of Richard Wagner, Humperdinck expanded what was originally a set of songs meant for holiday performance at home into an...
In this article: Hansel and Gretel, Lyric Opera San Diego, Engelbert Humperdinck, San Diego, and Vienna
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette | 6 days ago
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES Conway symphony tackles Wagner, Beethoven works
...Orchestra and Music Director Israel Getzov will perform the a Prelude and Love-Deatha from the opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner and the Symphony No. 7 by Ludwig van Beethoven at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Reynolds Performance Hall,...
In this article: Ludwig van Beethoven, All rights reserved, Symphony No. 7, University of Central Arkansas, and Associated Press
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette | 6 days ago
Conway Symphony to present music by Beethoven, Wagner
CONWAY The Conway Symphony Orchestra will feature two classical music giants, Ludwig van Beethoven and Richard Wagner, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of Central Arkansas. Beethovena s...
In this article: Ludwig van Beethoven and University of Central Arkansas
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Entertainment News | November 13, 2009
Thessaloniki International Film Festival opens
...actors and di... Wagner descendant protests 'anti-semitic' music at Wall festivities Cologne - Richard Wagner's great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner, on Friday protested the choice of music at festivities 20 years after the fall of the Berlin...
In this article: Britney Spears, Berlin, Paris Hilton, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Sydney, and Hamburg
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The Seattle Times | November 12, 2009
The week in classical: early music, the organ at Benaroya and Tchaikovsky
...virtuosity, debuts its new season with a program including Carl Nielsen's Helios Overture, Brahms' "Variation On a Theme By Haydn," Richard Wagner's Prelude to Act I from "Lohengrin," and Samuel Barber's Symphony No. 1. 7:30 p.m. Saturday;...
In this article: Seattle, Maurice Ravel, L'Eventail de Jeanne, Bolero, Symphony No. 1, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and Lohengrin
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thestar.com | November 09, 2009
Tribute concert marks COC milestone
...program devoted its first half to French masters Hector Berlioz and Charles Gounod. The evening closed with German colossus Richard Wagner. The star of the show was supposed to have been Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, but he withdrew last week...
In this article: Russell Braun, Canadian Opera Company, Ramon Vargas, Ben Heppner, Charles Gounod, and Toronto
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thestar.com | November 07, 2009
Debus unpacks, then puts out fires
...able to sing. One of the world's favourite dramatic tenors had still not shaken a virus he caught last month during a run of Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde in London. Instead of getting reacquainted with the city that is going to...
In this article: Four Seasons Centre, London, Fiscal year, Siegfried, and The Flying Dutchman
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Entertainment News | November 06, 2009
Wagner descendant protests 'anti-semitic' music at Wall festivities
Cologne - Richard Wagner's great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner, on Friday protested the choice of music at festivities 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which includes a composition by his "anti-semitic" great-grandfather. Israeli...
In this article: Berlin, Roman Polanski, Michael Jackson, Lord of the Rings, Lohengrin, Slumdog Millionaire, Europe, and Danny Boyle
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Houston Chronicle | October 28, 2009
Maestro is ready for his Wagner debut
...since its 2001 Tannhauser. Summers has conducted more than 30 operas here since his 1999 HGO debut with La Traviata. But Richard Wagner is a world unto himself and not only because of the devilish demands of his music. There's a...
In this article: Lohengrin, Indiana University, Fascism, Tannhauser, Parsifal, Don Carlo, and Richard Strauss
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L.A. Times - The Arts | October 21, 2009
Brush up on your Wagner -- online
...and unwise. The truth is, many people did like the production and the critic has the right to his opinion. Calling Richard Wagner "a genocidal racist", on the other hand, is truly misleading and it further undermines legitimacy of...
In this article: Los Angeles Times, Anthony Tommasini, L.A. County, Los Angeles, Siegfried, La boheme, and Adolf Hitler
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner (pronounced: /ˈvɑːɡnər/ or IPA: /ˈwæɡnər|/, ; 22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany – 13 February 1883, Venice, Italy) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Unlike most other opera composers, Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for every one of his works.
Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for contrapuntal texture, rich chromaticism, harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with particular characters, locales or plot elements. Wagner pioneered advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, which greatly influenced the development of European classical music.
He transformed musical thought through his idea of Gesamtkunstwerk ("total artwork"), the synthesis of all the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, epitomized by his monumental four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (1876). To try to stage these works as he imagined them, Wagner built his own opera house, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
- Birth Date:
- May 22, 1813
- Birthplace:
- Leipzig, Germany
- Death Date:
- February 13, 1883
- Place of Death:
- Venice
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