Christine Wilhelmine "Minna" Planer (5 September 1809 – 25 January 1866) was a German actress and the first wife of composer Richard Wagner, to whom she was...
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Minna, Wagner left Zürich alone, bound for Venice, where he rented an apartment in the Palazzo Giustinian, while Minna returned to Germany. Wagner's attitude...
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Winifred Marjorie Wagner (née Williams; 23 June 1897 – 5 March 1980) was the English-born wife of Siegfried Wagner, the son of Richard Wagner, and ran the...
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Richard Burton as Richard Wagner Gemma Craven as Minna Planer, later Wagner Dame Vanessa Redgrave as Cosima von Bülow, later Wagner Miguel Herz-Kestranek...
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Wagner (1809–1814) Ottilie Wagner (1811–1883) ∞ 1836 Hermann Brockhaus (1806–1877), orientalist Richard Wagner (1813–1883), composer ∞ 1. 1836 Minna Planer...
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Siegfried Helferich Richard Wagner (6 June 1869 – 4 August 1930) was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was an opera composer...
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another world". In these years Wagner's emotional life was in disarray. He was still married to his first wife, Minna Planer (she was to die in 1866)...
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Siegfried (opera) (redirect from Siegfried (Wagner))
86C, is the third of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It premiered...
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Der Ring des Nibelungen (redirect from Wagner's Ring)
is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works are based loosely on characters from Germanic heroic legend,...
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The German composer Richard Wagner was a controversial figure during his lifetime, and has continued to be so after his death. Even today he is associated...
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compositions by Richard Wagner. List of works for the stage by Richard Wagner The numbers given for Richard Wagner's works are from the Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis...
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Her most substantial film role was as Minna Wagner opposite Richard Burton's Richard Wagner, in the 1983 film Wagner. She also appeared in Why Not Stay for...
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Wagner and Gudrun Wagner (née Armann), great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, and great-great granddaughter of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Wagner...
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list of cinema films which have music by Richard Wagner in their soundtracks (other than films of Wagner's operas themselves). Casual references (and use...
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Bayreuth Festival (redirect from Richard Wagner Festival)
performances of stage works by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived and promoted the idea of a special festival...
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The Wagner tuba is a four-valve brass instrument commissioned by and named after Richard Wagner. It combines technical features of both standard tubas...
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Götterdämmerung (category Libretti by Richard Wagner)
86D, is the last of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It received...
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Die Walküre (redirect from Valkyrie (Wagner))
86B, is the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed...
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Der fliegende Holländer (redirect from The Flying Dutchman (Wagner))
from the stage of his actress wife, Minna Planer, caused him to run up huge debts that he was unable to repay. Wagner was writing Rienzi and hatched a plan...
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Ride of the Valkyries (category Compositions by Richard Wagner)
Walküre, the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Performed in 1921 by the American Symphony Orchestra...
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contract in Raw Edge (1956). Republic starred her as Minna Wagner in a biopic of Richard Wagner, Magic Fire (1956). On TV she was in "The Sainted General"...
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Tannhäuser (opera) (redirect from Tannhäuser (Wagner))
Wartburg") is an 1845 opera in three acts, with music and text by Richard Wagner (WWV 70 in the catalogue of the composer's works). It is based on two German...
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Richard Wagner's works for the stage, representing more than 50 years of creative life, comprise his 13 completed operas and a similar number of failed...
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Lohengrin (opera) (redirect from Lohengrin (Wagner))
its reliability), Wagner tells the story of how Lohengrin's libretto was written. In the summer of 1845 Wagner with his wife Minna planned their annual...
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Wieland Wagner (5 January 1917 – 17 October 1966) was a German opera director, and grandson of Richard Wagner. As co-director of the Bayreuth Festival...
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Das Rheingold (category Libretti by Richard Wagner)
86A, is the first of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It premiered...
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The Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (Catalogue of Wagner's Works), abbreviated WWV, is an index and musicological guide to the 113 musical compositions and works...
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The Case of Wagner (German: Der Fall Wagner) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1888. Subtitled "A Musician's Problem"...
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Bayreuth Festspielhaus (redirect from Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus)
of Bayreuth, Germany, built by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner and dedicated solely to the performance of his stage works. It is the venue...
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Tristan und Isolde (category Operas by Richard Wagner)
complexity of the score. In April 1858 Wagner's wife Minna intercepted a note from Wagner to Mathilde and, despite Wagner's protests that she was putting a "vulgar...
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