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Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

Pays d'origine: Allemagne
Date d'anniversaire: 22 mai 1813
Date de décès: 13 février 1883

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Siegfried
Chef d'orchestre: Antonio Pappano
Orchestre: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
17 mars 2026 | London (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Royal Opera House — Première soirée
Siegfried
Chef d'orchestre: Antonio Pappano
17 mars 2026 | London (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Royal Opera House — Première soirée

À propos de Richard Wagner

The childhood of Richard Wagner (born on 22 May 1813) was divided between Dresden and Leipzig, where he had his first composition lessons in 1831/32 from Christian Theodor Weinlig, cantor at the Thomasschule. In 1833 he became chorus master at the Würzburg theatre. Later he held brief appointments as music director at theatres in Bad Lauchstädt, Magdeburg, and Königsberg, where he married the actress Minna Planer in 1836.
 A conducting engagement took him to Riga in 1837, but in 1839 Wagner and Minna left Riga and his creditors under cover of night, heading for Paris over the stormy Baltic Sea. There he remained for three hard years, completing Rienzi (1840). His years in Paris turned into a bitterly disappointing experience. He eked out something less than a living by doing musical hack-work and writing articles. His first success with Rienzi in Dresden in 1842 led to his appointment as musical director (Hofkapellmeister) at Dresden in 1843, and shortly afterwards Der fliegende Holländer as well as his innovative Tannhäuser were performed for the first time. Some of his outstanding achievements were a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and his revised version of Gluck’s Iphigenie in Aulis.
In May 1849, having taken part in the revolt in Saxony, Wagner had to flee abroad, and after failing to establish himself as opera composer in Paris he settled with his wife in Zurich in 1857. They lived in a house on the Wesendonck estate under the patronage of the financier Otto von Wesendonck. While in Zurich he published various theoretical writings and composed Das Rheingold, Die Walküre and two acts of the opera Siegfried. While working on the Ring cycle, Wagner had fallen in love with Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of his wealthy patron. The Ring Cycle work was interrupted in 1857 and not continued until 12 years later. He shifted his interest to a new subject, the love tragedy Tristan und Isolde. In an untenable situation in 1858 he moved first to Venice, then to Lucerne, Paris and Vienna.
Although he was composing what would become some of the most famous pieces in music history, Wagner struggled financially until 1864, when Ludwig II of Bavaria called him to Munich and began supporting him. So, in 1865 Tristan und Isolde and in 1868 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg were premiered in Munich. Already by 1866 Wagner had fallen into disfavour amongst members of the court, who were suspicious of his influence on the king. He left Munich and went to Tribschen (near Lucerne), where he married Cosima von Bülow in 1870, the daughter of his friend Franz Liszt, who always supported him humanly and artistically. Around that time Die Meistersinger was finished, and he worked steadily at the unfinished portion of Der Ring des Nibelungen and further evolved the intellectual framework for his towering mature masterpieces.
In 1872 Wagner, his wife and the three children Isolde, Eva and Siegfried settled in Bayreuth. Wagner was anxious to have a special Festival Theatre for the complete cycle and spent much energy trying to raise money for it. Finally, King Ludwig II provided the necessary support. In 1872 the cornerstone was laid on Bayreuth’s Green Hill and the opera house was built to his personal specifications and suited to the massive fusion of music, staging, text, and scene design that his later operas entailed. The first festival – an artistic triumph but a financial disaster – was held there in 1876, when the complete Ring was given conducted by Hans Richter. In 1882 the second Bayreuth Festival took place with sixteen performances of Parsifal under Hermann Levi, which were financially successful. After that, Wagner and his family who had already spent the winter in Italy for some years, went to Venice where he died on 13 February 1883 of the heart trouble that had been with him for some years.

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  • Siegfried
    Chef d'orchestre: Antonio Pappano
    Orchestre: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
    17 mars 2026 | London (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Royal Opera House — Première soirée
  • Siegfried
    Chef d'orchestre: Antonio Pappano
    17 mars 2026 | London (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Royal Opera House — Première soirée
  • Sinfonie in C-Dur
    Chef d'orchestre: An Hoon Song
    Orchestre: Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra
    20 mars 2026 | Daejeon City (Corée du Sud) , Art Center
  • Parsifal
    Chef d'orchestre: Roland Fister
    Orchestre: Philharmonie Baden-Baden
    20 mars 2026 | Dornach (Suisse) , Goetheanum
  • Parsifal Suite
    Chef d'orchestre: Pierre Bleuse
    Orchestre: Filarmonica Banatul Timișoara
    20 mars 2026 | Timișoara (Roumanie) , Filarmoni, Sala Capitol — Première nationale
  • Parsifal Suite
    Chef d'orchestre: Andrew Gourlay
    Orchestre: Orquesta Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Musica
    20 mars 2026 | Porto (Portugal) , Casa da Música
  • Siegfried
    Chef d'orchestre: Antonio Pappano
    Orchestre: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
    21 mars 2026 | London (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Royal Opera House
  • Siegfried
    Chef d'orchestre: Antonio Pappano
    21. März 2026 | London (Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland) , Royal Opera House
  • Parsifal
    Chef d'orchestre: Roland Fister
    Orchestre: Philharmonie Baden-Baden
    22. März 2026 | Dornach (Schweiz) , Goetheanum
  • Götterdämmerung
    Chef d'orchestre: Frank Beermann
    Orchestre: Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel
    22. März 2026 | Kiel (Deutschland) , Opernhaus
  • Die Walküre
    Chef d'orchestre: Frank Beermann
    Orchestre: Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel
    22. März 2026 | Kiel (Deutschland) , Opernhaus
  • Das Rheingold
    Chef d'orchestre: Frank Beermann
    Orchestre: Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel
    22. März 2026 | Kiel (Deutschland) , Opernhaus
  • Siegfried
    Chef d'orchestre: Frank Beermann
    Orchestre: Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel
    22. März 2026 | Kiel (Deutschland) , Opernhaus
  • Siegfried
    Chef d'orchestre: Antonio Pappano
    Orchestre: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
    24 mars 2026 | London (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Royal Opera House
  • Siegfried
    Chef d'orchestre: Antonio Pappano
    24. März 2026 | London (Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland) , Royal Opera House
  • Tristan und Isolde
    Chef d'orchestre: Daniel Huppert
    Orchestre: Bergische Symphoniker
    24 mars 2026 | Solingen (Allemagne) , Theater und Konzerthaus
  • Tristan und Isolde
    Chef d'orchestre: Daniel Huppert
    Orchestre: Bergische Symphoniker
    25 mars 2026 | Remscheid (Allemagne) , Teo Otto Theater
  • Tristan und Isolde
    Chef d'orchestre: Daniel Huppert
    Orchestre: Bergische Symphoniker
    26 mars 2026 | Herne (Allemagne) , Kulturzentrum
  • L'Or du Rhin
    Chef d'orchestre: Kirill Petrenko
    Orchestre: Berliner Philharmoniker
    27. März 2026 | Salzburg (Österreich) , Felsenreitschule — Première soirée
  • Parsifal
    Chef d'orchestre: Przemysław Neumann
    Orchestre: Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii w Szczecinie
    27 mars 2026 | Szczecin (Pologne) , Filharmonia — Première nationale
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