Artists &
Arts Orgs.

Your fans have probably started a page for you already!

Sign up as a Partner to claim your page or start a new page.

InstantEncore
Richard Wagner, Composer
306 fans
(1813 - 1883).  No other composer in history has so utterly transformed a musical genre as Wagner transformed opera.  Unlike most opera composers who utilized a collaborator's poetry, he chose to write his own.  His central achievement was a complete reform of opera through his creation of the 4-opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen".  In the "Ring" he made drama, singing, the orchestra, and stagecraft as important as the music.  No existing theater could properly host such a spectacle, so he ...
Read More... |
Top Works   click for more info
Play/Queue Download
Wagner: Die Walküre
Wotan's Farewell, Magic Fire Music (25:41) N/A
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod
Composer: Richard Wagner
Conductor: Toshiyuki Shimada
Recording Date: Sat 20 Apr 2013
Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod (17:00) N/A
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Act III; Prelude, Dance of the Apprentices, Finale (12:52) N/A
Wagner: Götterdämmerung: Siegfried's Rhine Journey
Composer: Richard Wagner
Conductor: Mark Russell Smith
Recording Date: Sun 5 May 2013
Götterdämmerung: Siegfried's Rhine Journey (13:02) N/A
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Composer: Richard Wagner
Conductor: Mark Russell Smith
Recording Date: Sun 5 May 2013
Prelude to Act III, Dance of the Apprentices, Procession of the Meistersingers (13:23) N/A
Soap Box
Add to the conversation. Log In or Sign Up now.
Events
Temporada Orquestra Osuel / Colasanti / Bellato
23 Jun 2013
Teatro Com-Tur
Temporada Orquestra Osuel / Colasanti / Bellato
28 Jun 2013
Teatro Com-Tur
Heroes Through The Ages
29 Jun 2013
Naperville Community Concert Center