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Richard Wagner
Twilight of an age
| Introduction | Early Dresden | Boy Alone | Leipzig schooling | Student protests | Dorn at first light | Counterpoint with Weinlig | Wagner as librettist | Würzburg | Magdeburg | Königsberg and marriage | Riga | The Paris debâcle | The Rienzi success | Operas in Dresden | Political turmoil | Switzerland exile | The Wesendonck affair | The second Paris attempt | Marital disaster | The Munich scandal | Banishment and intimacy | The Bayreuth Festspielhaus | Heart attacks | Conclusion | WAGNER'S OPERAS |
Wagner's Operas
Die Hochzeit (begun 1822, unfinished)
Die Feen (completed 1833, premiered. 1888)
Das Liebesverbot (completed 1836, premiered 29 March 1836)
Rienzi (completed 1840, premiered 20th October 1842)
Der fliegende Holländer (completed 1841, premiered 2nd January 1843)
Tannhãuser (completed Apr 1845, premiered 19th October 1945)
Lohengrin (completed April 1848, premiered 28th
August 1850)
Tristan und Isolde (completed August 1859, premiered
10th June 1865)
Der Ring des Nibelungen (Das Rheingold, completed in1869; Die Walküre, completed in 1870; Siegfried, completed in 1876; Götterdämmerung, completed in 1876. Das Rheingold premiered in 1869; Die Walküre premiered in 1870. The cycle as a complete work premiered 13th-17th August 1876)
Die Meistersinger (completed October 1867, premiered 21st June 1868)
Parsifal (completed 1882, premiered 26th July 1882)
Gabriel Knight 2 (The Beast Within) features a so-called "lost opera" by Richard Wagner, for which the music was composed by Robert Holmes. The name of this lost opera is Der Fluch des Engelhart (The Curse of Engelhart). It should be needless to say that this opera is entirely an invention of the game's creator, Jane Jensen. Its plot involves lycanthropy, and it was supposedly composed by Wagner towards the end of his life, especially for King Ludwig II of Bavaria. According to the game, the opera was hidden by Ludwig II in his magnificent palace, Neuschwanstein. GK2 includes a ten-minute segment of the in-game opera's first performance.
