"Lohengrin (opera) Lohengrin, WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the ""Parzival"" of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, ""Lohengrin"", written by a different author, itself inspired by the epic of ""Garin le Loherain"". It is part of the Knight of the Swan tradition. The opera has inspired other works of art. King Ludwig II of Bavaria named his fairy-tale castle Neuschwanstein (New Swan Castle), after the Swan Knight. It was King Ludwig's patronage that"
"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"
"Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status"
"Ludwig Tieck (""Der getreue Eckart und der Tannhäuser"", 1799) and Heinrich Heine (1836). Richard Wagner adapted the legend in his three-act opera ""Tannhäuser"", completed in 1845. The plot of the opera covers both the ""Tannhauser"" legend and the epic of the ""Sängerkrieg"" at Wartburg Castle. Aubrey Beardsley started to write an erotic treatment of the legend which was never to be finished due to his conversion to Catholicism, repudiation of his past works, and subsequent illness and death; the first parts of it were published in ""The Savoy"" and later issued in book form by Leonard Smithers with the title"
"Selective bibliography Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying"
"revolutionary and controversial composers in musical history and his innovations changed the course of opera, not just in Germany and Austria but throughout Europe. Wagner gradually evolved a new concept of opera as a ""Gesamtkunstwerk"" (a ""complete work of art""), a fusion of music, poetry and painting. His earliest experiments followed the examples set by Weber (""Die Feen"") and Meyerbeer (""Rienzi""), but his most important formative influence was probably the symphonic music of Beethoven. Wagner believed his career truly began with ""Der fliegende Holländer"" (1843). Together with the two works which followed, ""Tannhäuser"" and ""Lohengrin"", this has been described as"
"have advanced theories to explain the motives and behaviour of the characters, including Jungian psychoanalysis, in particular as regards Tannhäuser's apparently self-destructive behaviour. In 2014 an analysis suggested that his apparently inconsistent behaviour, when analysed by game theory, is actually consistent with a redemption strategy. Only by public disclosure can Tannhäuser force a resolution of his inner conflict. Citations Sources 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"
"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"
"A famous case of the latter is Wagner's 1861 revision of the original 1845 Dresden version of his opera ""Tannhäuser"" for Paris. The opera libretto from its inception (ca. 1600) was written in verse, and this continued well into the 19th century, although genres of musical theatre with spoken dialogue have typically alternated verse in the musical numbers with spoken prose. Since the late 19th century some opera composers have written music to prose or free verse libretti. Much of the recitatives of George Gershwin's opera ""Porgy and Bess"", for instance, are merely DuBose and Dorothy Heyward's play ""Porgy"" set"
"Germany (Rotterdam, Bremen, etc.). In 1888-1889 he went on tour of the United States and Canada with Alexander Strakosch, returning to his native country afterwards. He died, aged 58, in Christiania, Norway. Labatt's repertoire included: Vasco da Gama in Meyerbeer's ""The African Maid"", the title role in Gounod's Faust, Eleazar in Halévy's ""The Jewess"", and the title roles in Richard Wagner's ""Tannhäuser"" and ""Rienzi"". Leonard Labatt Leonard Labatt (December 4, 1838 – March 7, 1897) was a Swedish dramatic tenor. Labatt was born in a Jewish family in Stockholm and studied under Julius Günther at the Stockholm Conservatory and Jean"
"1964, continuing on his own to conduct the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, South Australian Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Victorian Symphony Orchestra and Queensland Symphony Orchestra into July that year. He led a famous performance of Wagner's opera ""Tannhäuser"" at the Bayreuth Festival on 23 July 1955, being the first conductor of French nationality to conduct at Bayreuth (and only the third non-German to conduct there, after Toscanini and de Sabata). His other work at Bayreuth up to 1965 consisted of ""Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"" (1956, 1957, 1958), ""Parsifal"" (1957, 1965) and ""Lohengrin"" (1958), returning for ""Tannhäuser"" in 1965. According"
"western states of America, and in 1861 Lyster brought it to Australia. For about seven years it gave performances of the operas of Italian, German, French and English composers, including ""Don Giovanni"" in 1861, and the ""Les Huguenots"" in 1862. Other companies were brought out in later years, and at times comic opera was alternated with grand opera. His opera company gave 1,459 performances between 1861 and 1869. Classic operas like ""Lohengrin"", opened 18 August 1877, and ""Tannhäuser"" in 1878, were box office failures, although the company had included a distinguished singer, Antoinetta Link. Lyster, however, made the lighter operas"
"intended to premiere the opera on 13 October, Johanna's 19th birthday, but she was ill, so it was postponed by six days. Venus was created by Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, and the title role was taken by Josef Tichatschek. The performance was conducted by the composer. ""Tannhäuser"" was not the success that ""Rienzi"" had been, and Wagner almost immediately set to modifying the ending, adjusting the score through 1846 and 1847. For the first Dresden revival (1847) he clarified the representation of Venus's temptation of Tannhäuser in the final act, and adding vocal presentation of the pilgrim's chorus in this act (where"
"and the town where he grew up, by a memorial plaque and both Köslin and Stettin had streets bearing his surname. As composer, he achieved great success with his oratorio ""Winfried"" (1888), ""Otto der Grosse,"" (1890) ""Krösus,"" (1890) ""Die Jungfrau von Orleans,"" (1893) ""Golgatha,"" (1903) ""Das Licht"" (1907), and the opera ""Harald und Theano"" (Hanover, 1893). Karl Adolf Lorenz Karl Adolf Lorenz (13 August 1837 – 3 March 1923) was a German conductor, composer, and music pedagogue. Born in Köslin, his family moved to Stettin where he attended the Marienstiftsgymnasium (a school) for 16 years. During those 16 years, Lorenz"
"ideal piece for introducing opera to children, it also has extraordinarily sophisticated orchestration and makes great use of leitmotifs, both tell-tale signs of Wagner's influence. Other composers of the era who tried their hand at opera include Hugo Wolf (""Der Corregidor"", 1896) and Wagner's own son Siegfried. Richard Strauss was heavily influenced by Wagner, despite his father's efforts to the contrary. By seventeen, he was unimpressed with ""Tannhäuser"", ""Lohengrin"" and ""Siegfried"" but absolutely entranced by the other three pieces of the ""Ring"" and ""Tristan und Isolde"". Although in his early years he was more famous for his orchestral tone poems,"
"in ""Les Huguenots"", and Vasco da Gama in ""L'Africaine"" among others. His Wagner roles included Loge in ""Das Rheingold"", the title role in ""Lohengrin"", Siegmund in ""Die Walküre"", and the title role in ""Tannhäuser"". Ferenczy was also admired for his performances of Adolar in Carl Maria von Weber's ""Euryanthe"", Arnoldo in Rossini's ""William Tell"", Eleazar in Fromental Halévy's ""La Juive"", and Manrico in Verdi's ""Il Trovatore"". Franz Ferenczy Franz Ferenczy (also Franz Friedemann) (1835 – 27 February 1881, Weimar) was a nineteenth-century German tenor who had a prolific opera career in Europe between 1859-1880. Possessing a powerful voice with a"
"related cultural figure. Leo Tolstoy Rabindranath Tagore Martin Luther King, Jr. Satyagraha (opera) Satyagraha (; Sanskrit सत्याग्रह, ""satyāgraha"" ""insistence on truth"") is a 1979 opera in three acts for orchestra, chorus and soloists, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by Glass and Constance DeJong. Loosely based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, it forms the second part of Glass's ""Portrait Trilogy"" of operas about men who changed the world, which includes ""Einstein on the Beach"" and ""Akhnaten"". Glass's style can broadly be described as minimalist. The work is scored for 2 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, 2 tenors, a baritone, 2"
"Paganini (operetta) Paganini is an operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár. The German libretto was by and . Lehár composed the work as a vehicle for Richard Tauber, the acclaimed Austrian tenor, though he assumed the role (with Vera Schwarz as the princess) in Berlin on 30 January 1926, rather than the Vienna premiere which was at the Johann Strauss Theater on 30 October 1925 with in the title role. Tauber's contract with the Berlin State Opera required him to be in Stockholm at the time of the Vienna premiere. The operetta was so coolly received in Vienna that"
"composed by people like Johann Strauss the Younger. Richard Strauss was a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"" and ""Salome""; his ""lieder"", especially his ""Four Last Songs""; and his tone poems. Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style. The first half of 20th century saw a split between German and Austrian music. In Vienna, Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern moved"
"One of the most famous interpretations is Richard Wagner’s ""Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg"" (1843). Wagner was the first to merge the Tannhäuser legend with the Wartburg Sängerkrieg. In Wagner’s version, the ""Sängerkrieg"" is completely subordinated to the Tannhäuser story and the theme of release (""Erlösung""). The mythical sorcerer Klingsor, as an adversary of Christian conviction, is the figure which made possible the blending of these stories, because he could also embody the same demonic forces which had trapped Tannhäuser under the spell of the Lady Venus. In the early 19th century, the Wartburg re-emerged as a German cultural"
"of the melody can usually be made out, the rhythm of the song is frequently hard to fathom. There are a number of recordings of Minnesang using the original melodies, as well as Rock groups such as Ougenweide performing songs with modern instruments. In the 15th century, Minnesang developed into and gave way to the tradition of the Meistersänger. The two traditions are quite different, however; Minnesänger were mainly aristocrats, while Meistersänger usually were commoners. At least two operas have been written about the Minnesang tradition: Richard Wagner's ""Tannhäuser"" and Richard Strauss' ""Guntram"". The following love poem, of unknown authorship,"
"the Komische Oper Berlin by Walter Felsenstein in 1969. In 1973, he became the first vocal soloist at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, a position which Kurt Masur created for him. He performed and recorded several cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach and became known as a ""Lied"" singer. His recordings of songs by Franz Schubert received several awards. From 1978 to 1992, Lorenz was first lyrical baritone at the Staatsoper Berlin in Berlin. He appeared successfully as Wolfram in Wagner's ""Tannhäuser"", as the Count in Mozart's ""Die Hochzeit des Figaro"", as Posa in Verdi's ""Don Carlos"", and as Borromeo in Hans"
"of the score. The opera tells the life of Christopher Columbus in a series of episodes which avoid chronological order and are sometimes allegorical. Christophe Colomb Christophe Colomb (""Christopher Columbus"") is an opera in two parts by the French composer Darius Milhaud. The poet Paul Claudel wrote the libretto based on his own play about the life of Christopher Columbus, ""Le Livre de Christophe Colomb"". The opera was first performed at the Staatsoper, Berlin on 5 May 1930 in a German translation by Rudolph Stephan Hoffmann. Milhaud thoroughly revised the work and produced a second version around 1955. The opera"
"and Christhood asserts that the blossoming staff of the eponymous Young King in Oscar Wilde's fairy tale evokes that of Tannhäuser. H.G. Wells' Sleeper watches an adaption in ""The Sleeper Awakes"" (1910). He also references it in his short story ""The Man Who Could Work Miracles"" (1898). Author Philip José Farmer references Tannhäuser and Venusberg in the 1967 sci-fi novella ""Riders of the Purple Wage"". The plot of Neil Gaiman's story ""Neverwhere"" broadly mirrors the Tannhauser legend, as does the BBC TV series ""Life on Mars"". Tannhäuser Tannhäuser (; Middle High German: ""Tanhûser"") was a German Minnesinger and poet. Historically,"
"Kaufmann's life both before and after her time at the Bavarian State Opera have surfaced. Anna Kaufmann Anna Kaufmann was a German operatic soprano who was a principal artist at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1869 to 1872. Just prior to her appointment, the great soprano Mathilde Mallinger had left the Bavarian State Opera and Kaufmann succeeded her in the roles of Elsa in Richard Wagner's ""Lohengrin"", Elisabeth in Wagner's ""Tannhäuser"", and Eva in Wagner's ""Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"" among other parts. She notably created the roles of Woglinde in Wagner's ""Das Rheingold"" on September 22, 1869 and"
"Anna Kaufmann Anna Kaufmann was a German operatic soprano who was a principal artist at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1869 to 1872. Just prior to her appointment, the great soprano Mathilde Mallinger had left the Bavarian State Opera and Kaufmann succeeded her in the roles of Elsa in Richard Wagner's ""Lohengrin"", Elisabeth in Wagner's ""Tannhäuser"", and Eva in Wagner's ""Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"" among other parts. She notably created the roles of Woglinde in Wagner's ""Das Rheingold"" on September 22, 1869 and Fricka in Wagner's ""Die Walküre"" on June 26, 1869. Currently, no further biographical details about"
"Festival, regularly appearing in the title role of ""Lohengrin"", which he last performed in 2005 with his wife Schnitzer in the role of Elsa. In 2003 he was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, for his performance of Tannhäuser, under Daniel Barenboim. Today, he is a sought-after Heldentenor, singing many of the title roles of Wagner's best-known operas. Most of the information in this article is taken from the . Peter Seiffert Peter Seiffert (born January 4, 1954, in Düsseldorf) is a German tenor. Seiffert studied at the Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf and made his debut in 1978 at"
"last hundred years, although the overture to ""Rienzi"" is an occasional concert-hall piece. ""Die Feen"", ""Das Liebesverbot"", and ""Rienzi"" were performed at both Leipzig and Bayreuth in 2013 to mark the composer's bicentenary. Wagner's middle stage output began with ""Der fliegende Holländer"" (""The Flying Dutchman"", 1843), followed by ""Tannhäuser"" (1845) and ""Lohengrin"" (1850). These three operas are sometimes referred to as Wagner's ""romantic operas"". They reinforced the reputation, among the public in Germany and beyond, that Wagner had begun to establish with ""Rienzi"". Although distancing himself from the style of these operas from 1849 onwards, he nevertheless reworked both ""Der"
"return to Darmstadt in 1839 he became the director of the local ""Musikverein"", which in the course of the following years performed all of his major oratorio and cantata works. In 1848, he was made ""Hofmusikdirektor"" (court music director) at Darmstadt Castle. His second opera, ""Tannhäuser"" (1845), was written at the same time as Wagner's work of the same title, but without mutual knowledge. Apparently, performances of Mangold's work beyond Darmstadt were hampered out of consideration for Wagner. After Mangold's death the music was refitted to a new libretto by Ernst Pasqué as ""Der getreue Eckart"" (1892). Mangold was a"
"opera houses. Waghalter also conducted the German debut performances of Tosca and La Bohème and also of Ralph Vaughan Williams' second symphony in 1923. Three of Waghalter’s own operas received their premier at the Deutsche Opernhaus: ""Mandragola"", based on a Renaissance comedy by Machiavelli, in January 1914, which was booked for a European tour but was abandoned with the outbreak of the First World War; ""Jugend"", based on the tragic realistic work by the German dramatist Max Halbe, in February 1917; and ""Sataniel"", inspired by a Polish fantasy tale, in May 1923. The fervent melodicism of these works marked Waghalter"
"most significant revision was made for the opera's premiere in Paris in 1861; the production there was however a failure, partly for political reasons. The opera remains a staple of major opera house repertoire in the 21st century. The libretto of ""Tannhäuser"" combines mythological elements characteristic of German ""Romantische Oper"" (Romantic opera) and the medieval setting typical of many French Grand Operas. Wagner brings these two together by constructing a plot involving the 14th century Minnesingers and the myth of Venus and her subterranean realm of Venusberg. Both the historical and the mythological are united in Tannhäuser's personality; although he"
"became co-conductor, with Wilhelm Taubert, of the Berlin Hofoper - a post he held until 1869. Dorn taught counterpoint to the young Robert Schumann, and was a friend of Franz Liszt. He was a harsh critic of Richard Wagner, but was persuaded to conduct the opera ""Tannhäuser"", in 1855. He also wrote an opera ""Die Nibelungen"", based on the Nibelungenlied, in 1853, many years before Wagner completed ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"". Dorn died in Berlin in 1892. Heinrich Dorn Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn (14 November 180410 January 1892) was a German conductor, composer, and journalist. He was born in Königsberg"
"his boyhood Strauss attended orchestra rehearsals of the Munich Court Orchestra (now the Bavarian State Orchestra), where he received private instruction in music theory and orchestration from an assistant conductor. In 1872, he started receiving violin instruction at the Royal School of Music from Benno Walter, his father's cousin. In 1874, Strauss heard his first Wagner operas, ""Lohengrin"" and ""Tannhäuser"". The influence of Wagner's music on Strauss's style was to be profound, but at first his musically conservative father forbade him to study it. Indeed, in the Strauss household, the music of Richard Wagner was viewed with deep suspicion, and"