"Richard Wagner's tetralogy ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"" (whose fourth installment is called ""Twilight of the Gods"" (Gotterdammerung)). The remaining two operas were never completed. Leoncavallo sought to create an ""epic poem"" for the stage. However, one contemporary review of the premiere stated: In ""I Medici"" we have a historical opera like those that have been made many times before and will be hence ... [but] we do not have either an epoch or a set of characters brought truthfully to life; we do not have, in a word, that counterpart of the mythic trilogy [sic] of Wagner at which Leoncavallo"
"Tannhäuser (opera) Tannhäuser (; full title Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, ""Tannhäuser and the Minnesingers' Contest at Wartburg"") is an 1845 opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on two German legends: Tannhäuser, the legendary medieval German Minnesänger and poet, and the tale of the Wartburg Song Contest. The story centers on the struggle between sacred and profane love, and redemption through love, a theme running through much of Wagner's mature work. Wagner made a number of revisions of the opera throughout his life and was still unsatisfied with its format when he died. The"
"The Flying Dutchman (opera) The Flying Dutchman (German: ), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. Wagner claimed in his 1870 autobiography ""Mein Leben"" that he had been inspired to write the opera following a stormy sea crossing he made from Riga to London in July and August 1839. In his 1843 ""Autobiographic Sketch"", Wagner acknowledged he had taken the story from Heinrich Heine's retelling of the legend in his 1833 satirical novel ""The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski"" (""Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski""). The central theme is redemption through love. Wagner"
"risks damaging the singer's voice; only very large-voiced, powerful singers can sing it. Moll himself avoided the role. Notes Götterdämmerung The title is a translation into German of the Old Norse phrase """", which in Norse mythology refers to a prophesied war among various beings and gods that ultimately results in the burning, immersion in water, and renewal of the world. However, as with the rest of the ""Ring"", Wagner's account diverges significantly from his Old Norse sources. The three Norns, daughters of Erda, gather beside Brünnhilde's rock, weaving the rope of Destiny. They sing of the past and the"
"– ""Wozzeck"" (Marie/Marietta), Berwald – ""Estrella de Soria"" (Zulma), Johan Hammerth – Stockholms Kantat, Korngold – ""Die Tote Stadt"" (Marie/Marietta), Wagner – ""Götterdämmerung"" (Brünnhilde), Wagner – ""Tristan und Isolde"" (Brangäne), and Wagner – ""Parsifal"" (Kundry). With her sister Maria Dalayman and tenor Thomas Sunnegårdh Dalayman runs the opera agency Good Company. Dalayman lives in Stockholm, Sweden, and has two sons. Katarina Dalayman Katarina Dalayman (born January 25, 1963 in Stockholm) is a Swedish former soprano that has transitioned into a mezzosoprano. She has found critical acclaim singing major operatic roles by composers such as Wagner, Berg, Shostakovich and Bartók, among"
"France. In 1976 she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire on the recommendation of the Government of Australia. Marjorie Lawrence Marjorie Florence Lawrence CBE (17 February 190713 January 1979) was an Australian soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operas. She was the first Metropolitan Opera soprano to perform the immolation scene in ""Götterdämmerung"" by riding her horse into the flames as Wagner had intended. She was afflicted by polio from 1941. Lawrence later served on the faculty of the School of Music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her life story was told"
"Dutchman are seen ascending to heaven. Notes Footnotes The Flying Dutchman (opera) The Flying Dutchman (German: ), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. Wagner claimed in his 1870 autobiography ""Mein Leben"" that he had been inspired to write the opera following a stormy sea crossing he made from Riga to London in July and August 1839. In his 1843 ""Autobiographic Sketch"", Wagner acknowledged he had taken the story from Heinrich Heine's retelling of the legend in his 1833 satirical novel ""The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski"" (""Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski"")."
"history of Germanic studies. The event is attested primarily in the ""Poetic Edda"", compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the ""Prose Edda"", written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In the ""Prose Edda"" and in a single poem in the ""Poetic Edda"", the event is referred to as Ragnarök or Ragnarøkkr (Old Norse; meaning ""Fate of the Gods"" and ""Twilight of the Gods"", respectively), a usage popularised by 19th-century composer Richard Wagner with the title of the last of his ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"" operas, ""Götterdämmerung"" (1876), which is ""Twilight of the Gods"" in German."
"Andreas Wagner as the Evangelist, Friedemann Kunder as the vox Christi, and contralto Hedwig Fassbender. In 1997, she won a prize at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb. Britta Stallmeister Britta Stallmeister is a German operatic soprano. A member of the Frankfurt Opera from 1998 to 2015, she has appeared in major European opera houses and international festivals. She has performed in premieres, and in recitals and recordings. Stallmeister studied voice at the Musikhochschule Hannover with Carl-Heinz Müller. She was a member of the Frankfurt Opera from 1998, where she made her debut as Pamina in Mozart's ""Die Zauberflöte"". She performed more than"
"Düsseldorf Opera from 1956 to 1959. She performed in Wagner operas at the Bayreuth Festival, first in 1951 the role of Erda in ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"", also the same year Schwertleite in ""Die Walküre"", the First Norne in ""Götterdämmerung"", later also Waltraute and Fricka in ""The Ring"" and the alto solo in ""Parsifal"". She sang Wagner roles also at major opera houses in Europe: at the Royal Opera House in London Erda and Fricka, at La Scala in Milan Waltraute in ""Götterdämmerung"" and Erda, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples Erda and Fricka, at the Teatro Nuovo di"
"sequence: Although individual works of the sequence have occasionally been performed separately, Wagner intended them to be performed in series. The first performance as a cycle opened the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876, beginning with ""Das Rheingold"" on 13 August and ending with ""Götterdämmerung"" on 17 August. Opera stage director Anthony Freud stated that ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"" ""marks the high-water mark of our art form, the most massive challenge any opera company can undertake."" Wagner's title is most literally rendered in English as ""The Ring of the Nibelung"". The Nibelung of the title is the dwarf Alberich, and the"
"Götterdämmerung The title is a translation into German of the Old Norse phrase """", which in Norse mythology refers to a prophesied war among various beings and gods that ultimately results in the burning, immersion in water, and renewal of the world. However, as with the rest of the ""Ring"", Wagner's account diverges significantly from his Old Norse sources. The three Norns, daughters of Erda, gather beside Brünnhilde's rock, weaving the rope of Destiny. They sing of the past and the present, and of the future when Wotan will set fire to Valhalla to signal the end of the gods."
"Ljungberg"" 1933: Giacomo Puccini: ""Tosca"" arias with Joseph Schmidt. ""Neither singer seems to have reached an adequate understanding of the dramatic significance of the duet"" Göta Ljungberg Göta Ljungberg (October 4, 1893 - June 28, 1955) was a major Swedish Wagnerian soprano of the 1920s who sang throughout American and Europe and left an important recorded legacy. Born in Sundsvall, she studied at the Stockholm Opera School with the physician and vocal coach Gillis Bratt. She undertook further studies with Mme Charles Cahier in Stockholm and also in Milan and Berlin. She debuted as Gutrune in Wagner's ""Götterdämmerung"" with the"
"American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas was a Musical Assistant and Assistant Conductor at the Bayreuth Festival. In her latter years Friedelind Wagner made her home in Lucerne, Switzerland. Never married, she died in a hospital in Herdecke, Germany, in 1991. Friedelind Wagner Friedelind Wagner (29 March 1918 – 8 May 1991) was the daughter of German opera composer Siegfried Wagner and his English wife, Winifred Williams and the granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner. Born in Bayreuth, she was known by the nickname ""Die Maus"" or ""Mausi"". Along with other members of her family, from early in life Friedelind Wagner"
"Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, ""music dramas""). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the ""Gesamtkunstwerk"" (""total work of art""), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic,"
"Wagner tuba The Wagner tuba is an infrequently-used brass instrument that combines tonal elements of both the French horn and the trombone. Wagner tubas (or ""Wagnertuben"") are also referred to as Wagner horns or Bayreuth tubas in English and as Bayreuth-Tuben or simply Tuben in German. The term ""Wagner tuba"" has been used in English since the 19th century and is standard today. Wagner's published scores usually refer to these instruments in the plural, ""Tuben"", but sometimes in the singular, ""Tuba"". The Wagner tuba was originally created for Richard Wagner's operatic cycle ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"". Since then, other composers"
"Göta Ljungberg Göta Ljungberg (October 4, 1893 - June 28, 1955) was a major Swedish Wagnerian soprano of the 1920s who sang throughout American and Europe and left an important recorded legacy. Born in Sundsvall, she studied at the Stockholm Opera School with the physician and vocal coach Gillis Bratt. She undertook further studies with Mme Charles Cahier in Stockholm and also in Milan and Berlin. She debuted as Gutrune in Wagner's ""Götterdämmerung"" with the Stockholm Opera in 1917. She remained one of the leading singers there until 1926 when began her international career. She went on to sing at"
"with a Hammer"". The former title, ""Götzen-Dämmerung"" in German, is a pun on the title of Richard Wagner's opera, ""Götterdämmerung"", or 'Twilight of the Gods'. ""Götze"" is a German word for ""idol"" or ""false god"". Walter Kaufmann has suggested that in his use of the word Nietzsche might be indebted to Francis Bacon. Nietzsche criticizes German culture of the day as unsophisticated and nihilistic, and shoots some disapproving arrows at key French, British, and Italian cultural figures who represent similar tendencies. In contrast to all these alleged representatives of cultural ""decadence"", Nietzsche applauds Caesar, Napoleon, Goethe, Thucydides and the Sophists"
"The phrase is generally understood to be referencing the stereotypically overweight sopranos of the opera. The imagery of Richard Wagner's opera cycle ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"" and its last part, ""Götterdämmerung"", is typically the one used in depictions accompanying reference to the phrase. The ""fat lady"" is the valkyrie Brünnhilde, who is traditionally presented as a very buxom lady. Her farewell scene lasts almost twenty minutes and leads directly to the finale of the whole Ring Cycle. As ""Götterdämmerung"" is about the end of the world (or at least the world of the Norse gods), in a very significant way"
"1971 Thomaschke was awarded a prize at the International Vocal Competition ´s-Hertogenbosch; he also won honors at another international singing competition in Moscow. Thomas Thomaschke Thomas Thomaschke (born 2 August 1943) is a German bass singer in opera and concert. He has appeared in parts such as Hunding in Wagner's ""Die Walküre"" and Sarastro in Mozart's ""Die Zauberflöte"" in major opera houses in Europe and international festivals. He has also performed and recorded oratorios and cantatas. Born in Pirna, he first studied the horn, then voice with Harry Schwickardi at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. He"
"Gerd Grochowski Gerd Grochowski (28 February 28, 1956 in Krefeld – 16 January 2017 in Mainz) was a German operatic bass-baritone who had an active international career from 1986 until his death in 2017. Particularly known for his performances in the operas of Richard Wagner, his roles included Donner in ""Das Rheingold"", Gunther in ""Götterdämmerung"", Klingsor in ""Parsifal"", Kurwenal in ""Tristan und Isolde"", Telramund in ""Lohengrin"", and Wotan in ""The Ring Cycle"". A graduate of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, he was a longtime resident artist at the Cologne Opera. He appeared in leading roles as a guest"
"Götterdämmerung antagonist, Hagen. Pappano visits Bayreuth and the palace of Wagner's patron Ludwig II of Bavaria during the documentary. Pappano explains how Wagner did not approve of the word opera to describe his compositions. Instead he favoured the term musical drama, which he considered to be an all inclusive term for his role of controlling every aspect of the production. Pappano relates how Wagner would stand on the stage, directing the singers, including singing all the roles, male and female to them; as means to direct them in interpreting roles. Wagner would also show stage choreography to the cast by"
"Ducal Vault at Weimar's Historical Cemetery. Eckermann closes his famous work, ""Conversations with Goethe"", with this passage: The first production of Richard Wagner's opera ""Lohengrin"" took place in Weimar in 1850. The conductor was Franz Liszt, who chose the date 28 August in honour of Goethe, who was born on 28 August 1749. The most important of Goethe's works produced before he went to Weimar were ""Götz von Berlichingen"" (1773), a tragedy that was the first work to bring him recognition, and the novel ""The Sorrows of Young Werther"" (German: ""Die Leiden des jungen Werthers"") (1774), which gained him enormous"
"Marjorie Lawrence Marjorie Florence Lawrence CBE (17 February 190713 January 1979) was an Australian soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operas. She was the first Metropolitan Opera soprano to perform the immolation scene in ""Götterdämmerung"" by riding her horse into the flames as Wagner had intended. She was afflicted by polio from 1941. Lawrence later served on the faculty of the School of Music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her life story was told in the 1955 film ""Interrupted Melody"", in which she was portrayed by Eleanor Parker, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best"
"sister has lied. If they go to Etzel's land, they will die there. This story, itself unrelated to the ""Ring"" drama, is echoed by Wagner both in the opening ""Das Rheingold"" scene and in the first scene in Act III of ""Götterdämmerung"". Wagner first adapted the story for use in his early libretto of ""Siegfried's Death"" (which eventually became ""Götterdämmerung""), introducing three unnamed water-maids (""Wasserjungfrauen""), and locating them in the Rhine, where they warn Siegfried of his impending death. Later these water-maids became Rhinemaidens (""Rheintöchter""), and were given individual names: Flosshilde, Wellgunde, and Bronnlinde. As Wagner continued working on his"
"famous Wagner roles as Wotan in the Ring cycle, Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger and as the Dutchman in the Flying Dutchman. In Britain this part was often referred to as Vanderdacken, though Wagner never used that name. In 1883 he sang in Il Trovatore in the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. A prototype telephone carried the performance to Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, half a mile away, where an astonished audience was able to hear the singers and orchestra. He sang Claude Frollo in Goring Thomas's ""Esmeralda"" at Drury lane in 1883 and took part in the first performance of Mackenzie's Colomba (5"
"French and Italian comic opera. It is also referred to as the forgotten comedy, in that only two of Wagner's works are comedies, the other being ""Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"". The opera was rarely performed in the following hundred years. In the United Kingdom, the first performance was given on 16 February 1965 at the Collegiate Theatre of the University of London. In North America its most successful revival was in 1983, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, but its fully staged premiere took place on 19 July 2008 at the Glimmerglass Festival in a production by Nicholas Muni. The cast was"
"consisted of some the most celebrated singers from Europe's German-language opera houses. The new German Met found great popular and critical success in the works of Wagner and other German composers as well as in Italian and French operas sung in German. Sadly Damrosch died only months into his first season at the Met. Edmund Stanton replaced Damrosch the following year and served as General Manager through the 1890-91 season, the last of the all German repertory. The Met's six German seasons were especially noted for performances by the celebrated conductor Anton Seidl whose Wagner interpretations were noted for their"
"April 1883). He was also justly famous for his oratorio and concert singing. He was perhaps the greatest Vanderdecken of his day. Wagner is said to have given him a score of ""The Flying Dutchman,"" inscribed: ""To the incomparable Vanderdeken"". However, Wagner referred to the title role as ""the Dutchman"" and not Vanderdecken, but in English productions the title role was always referred to as Vanderdecken or even Van Der Decken. Wagner was in London when Ludwig was singing with Carl Rosa, but definite evidence of their meeting has proved elusive. Ludwig travelled to the United States for the first"
"The Wanderer and Gunther at La Scala, Milan, in performances of ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"" conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. Herrmann died at Hildesheim. Josef Herrmann Josef Herrmann (20 April 1903 - 19 November 1955) was a German baritone, notable for his performances in the operas of Richard Wagner. He was born in Darmstadt and made his professional debut at Kaiserslautern. He subsequently sang with the opera companies at Stettin (Szczecin), Königsberg and Nuremberg before becoming principal baritone in Dresden, where, in the 1940s, he sang roles such as Scarpia in ""Tosca"" and Iago in ""Otello"", as well as the German"
"Composition of Der Ring des Nibelungen The evolution of Richard Wagner's operatic tetralogy ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"" (""The Ring of the Nibelung"") was a long and tortuous process, and the precise sequence of events which led the composer to embark upon such a vast undertaking is still unclear. The composition of the text took place between 1848 and 1853, when all four libretti were privately printed; but the closing scene of the final opera, ""Götterdämmerung"", was revised a number of times between 1856 and 1872. The names of the last two Ring operas, ""Siegfried"" and ""Götterdämmerung"", were probably not definitively"
"of the Rhine gold after his renunciation of love; his fashioning of the all-powerful ring from the gold and his enslavement of the Nibelungs; Wotan's seizure of the gold and the ring, to pay his debt to the giants who have built his fortress Valhalla; Alberich's curse on the ring and its possessors; Erda's warning to Wotan to forsake the ring; the early manifestation of the curse's power after Wotan yields the ring to the giants; and the gods' uneasy entry into Valhalla, under the shadow of their impending doom. Having completed his opera ""Lohengrin"" in April 1848, Richard Wagner"
"Der Ring des Nibelungen ' (The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the ""Nibelungenlied"". The composer termed the cycle a ""Bühnenfestspiel"" (stage festival play), structured in three days preceded by a (""preliminary evening""). It is often referred to as the Ring Cycle""""', ""Wagner's Ring"", or simply ""The Ring"". Wagner wrote the libretto and music over the course of about twenty-six years, from 1848 to 1874. The four parts that constitute the ""Ring"" cycle are, in"