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RICHARD WAGNER

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The immortal masterpiece "The Ring of the Nibelung" by genius composer Richard Wagner gave new life to the german myth of the Nibelungs. "The Ring" is a prophecy for the III Millennium, more powerful than Nostradamus!

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HIGHLIGHTS :

Walküre Act Two Prelude
("The ride of the Valkyries")

Siegfried Act Three Prelude
("The Wanderer")

Götterdämmerung
Prologue Introduction

The greatest composer of German opera, Richard Wagner, b. Leipzig, May 22, 1813, was the youngest of nine children of Friedrich and Johanna Wagner. His father, a police registrar, died 6 months after Wagner was born, and his mother was remarried the following year to Ludwig Geyer, an actor and portrait painter, who moved the family to Dresden.
Geyer died in 1821, and in 1827 the family returned to Leipzig. Wagner was attracted to the theatre at an early age.

His formal music training was brief - about 6 months in 1831-32 with the Leipzig cantor C.T. Weinlig. During the 1830s, Wagner held a series of conducting posts with small theatrical companies, and he wrote two operas, Die Feen (The Fairies, 1834) and Das Liebesverbot (Forbidden Love; after Shakespeare's Measure for Measure); His third opera, Rienzi, was conceived on a larger scale, and Wagner travelled to Paris in 1839 with the futile hope of having it performed there. Rienzi was finally accepted for performance in Dresden in 1842. Its success, coupled with that of Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) the following year, led to Wagner's appointment to an official conducting post in Dresden.

There he completed Tannhäuser (1845) and Lohengrin (1848). This period of success ended in 1849, however, when his participation in revolutionary political activities forced him to flee to Switzerland. Wagner's exile from Germany, which lasted until 1860, marks the start of a new period in his career.

Wagner began composing the non-conventional opera-cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG) in 1848 and did not finish until 1874.
The last great turning point in Wagner's fortunes occurred in 1864 when he was called to Munich by the eccentric young king of Bavaria, Ludwig II, an ardent admirer of his works and theories. Ludwig's patronage continued for the last 20 years of Wagner's life, making possible the performance of all his mature works and eventually the construction in Bayreuth of a theatre of Wagner's own design. It was opened in 1876 with the first complete production of the Ring. Bayreuth soon became the centre for the promotion of Wagner's works and ideology. His last opera, Parsifal, was performed in 1882, with the ceremony normally accorded only to a religious event.

Following Wagner's death on Feb. 13, 1883, control of the Bayreuth festival passed to his second wife, Cosima (a daughter of Franz Liszt), and later to their children and grandchildren, a succession that has continued to the present.

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