Richard Wagner
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas. Unlike most compose
Wagner in 1871
Wagner's birthplace, at 3, the Brühl, Leipzig
Wilhelmine "Minna" Planer (1835), by Alexander von Otterstedt
Wagner c. 1840, by Ernest Benedikt Kietz
Die Walküre
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Die Walküre, WWV 86B, is the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on
Josef Hoffman's stage design for Act I, Bayreuth 1876
Brünnhilde on the mountainside; title page from the 1899 Schott's vocal score
Brünnhilde pleads with her sisters to rescue Sieglinde: (Arthur Rackham, 1910)
Brünnhilde in the Eddas – "superhuman strength"