The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagner's Der Ring...

the reading of the Ring as a revolutionary drama and critique of the modern world, famously expounded by George Bernard Shaw in The Perfect Wagnerite...

essay The Perfect Wagnerite, Bernard Shaw praises the synthesis of music and drama: "There is not ... a note in it that has any other point than the single...

awarding the role to a deeper-voiced contralto or mezzo, their characters are undifferentiated. In The Perfect Wagnerite, his 1886 analysis of the Ring drama...

The "Ride of the Valkyries" (German: Walkürenritt or Ritt der Walküren) refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four epic music...

formulated at the time of his revolutionary inclinations in the 1840s. Thus, for example, George Bernard Shaw wrote in The Perfect Wagnerite (1883): [Wagner's]...

Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-17888-9. Shaw, Bernard (1898). The Perfect Wagnerite. London: Grant Richards. OCLC 4815545. Skelton, Geoffrey, ed. (1994)...

the Gods), WWV 86D, is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four epic music dramas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring...

The "Bridal Chorus" (German: "Treulich geführt") from the 1850 opera Lohengrin by German composer Richard Wagner, who also wrote the libretto, is a march...

was the English-born wife of Siegfried Wagner, the son of Richard Wagner, and ran the Bayreuth Festival after her husband's death in 1930 until the end...

is the third of the four epic music dramas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It premiered at the Bayreuth...

The following is a list of works by George Bernard Shaw. The first section shows works in chronological sequence as written, the second tabulates these...

The original Tristan chord is heard in the opening phrase of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde as part of the leitmotif relating to Tristan. It...

death") is the title of the final, dramatic music from the 1859 opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner. It is the climactic end of the opera, as Isolde...

The Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103, by Richard Wagner is a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra. Wagner composed the Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to...

that he "stood in wonder and terror" before Wagner's Tristan. In The Perfect Wagnerite, the writer and satirist George Bernard Shaw writes that Tristan was...

pp. 69–71. Bernard Shaw, The Perfect Wagnerite (1883) online at www.marxists.org Shaw's examination of Wagner's approach to the cycle "Daughters chosen...

committed Wagnerite, commented in 1894 that: "The opening performance of Parsifal this season was, from the purely musical point of view, as far as the principal...

The family of the composer Richard Wagner: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1770–1813), a police actuary ∞ 1798 Johanna Rosine Pätz (1778–1848), daughter...

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 (WWV). Saffle...

Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. It premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October 1913 and was...

As the essay was largely regarded as an embarrassment to the early Wagnerites, there was just one reprint of the essay in Weimar in 1914, before the Nazis...

"a relief to many beleaguered Wagnerites". James Morris, who sang Wotan in the 1987 production, and James Levine, the original conductor, both returned...

in Britain. She was a member of the Fabian Society and was dedicated to the struggle for women's rights. She married the playwright George Bernard Shaw...

Fafnir's helmet Aegis "The Perfect Wagnerite", essay by George Bernard Shaw Peter Gilliver, The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary...

"Alternative to the Prologue". The prologue consists of the Egyptian god Ra addressing the audience directly, as if he could see them in the theater (i.e...

a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was an opera composer and the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930...

Bayreuth) is a German opera stage director and is the director of the Bayreuth Festival. She is the daughter of Wolfgang Wagner and Gudrun Wagner (née...

The following is a sortable list of cinema films which have music by Richard Wagner in their soundtracks (other than films of Wagner's operas themselves)...

built by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner and dedicated solely to the performance of his stage works. It is the venue for the annual Bayreuth...