Thursday, March 1, 2018

Richard Wagner

His most popular operas are:

  • Der fliegende Holländer #25 (2 Jan 1843)
  • Tannhäuser #53 (19 Oct 1845)
  • Lohengrin #63 (28 Aug 1850)
  • Das Rheingold (22 Sept 1869)
  • Die Walküre #36 (26 June 1870)
  • Tristan und Isolde #39 (10 June 1865)
  • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg #77 (21 June 1868)
  • Siegfried #50 (16 Aug 1876)
  • Götterdämmerung #59 (17 Aug 1876)
  • Parsifal #54 (26 July 1882)
All of these operas are in the 100 most performed.  It is interesting, at least to me, that his most popular opera is the one most like a Grand Opera. There is no listing for librettists because Wagner wrote his own librettos.


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