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Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/; German: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama, and which was announced in a series of essays between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).
His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music. His Tristan und Isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music.
Actors: Leandra Leal (actress), Júlio Andrade (actor), João Miguel (actor), Carmem Levy (miscellaneous crew), Rod Carvalho (actor), André Ramiro (actor), Bruno Safadi (writer), Bruno Safadi (director), Cristina Lago (actress), João Pedro Zappa (actor), Jan Roldanus (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Simon Williams (actor), William Armstrong (actor), Lesley Garrett (actress), Rupert Edwards (director), Blake Ritson (actor), David Barrass (actor), Anton du Beke (actor), Joe Duttine (actor), Bryn Walters (actor), Katie Blake (actress), Alexandra Gilbreath (actress), Laurence Spellman (actor), Kim Fenton (actor), Nick Barber (actor), Barnaby Stone (actor),
Genres: History,Actors: Haylie Duff (actress), Rob Adler (actor), Blake Bashoff (actor), Dan Passman (director), Brian Funck (editor), Dan Passman (writer), Brian Sites (actor), Kathy Abbott (miscellaneous crew), Jason Lansing (actor), Simone Cassar (editor), Carlos Colon (producer), Mark Sokolowski (actor), Erik Altemus (actor), Susan Anderson (costume designer), Alexi Von Mueller (actress),
Plot: It's the summer of 1990 at Camp Colman, and while most of his cabinmates are busy bragging about their sexual exploits, Zach Newman is keeping something secret. Ashamed to shower in front of his friends, he quickly becomes the target of ridicule, threatening his chances with Wendy, the girl he's liked for two summers. When ignoring and fighting back both prove futile, Newman is left with no choice but to do what he has most wanted to avoid... to face them.
Keywords: adolescent-boy, male-full-back-nudity, showerActors: John Dennis Johnston (actor), Jack Kehler (actor), James Gammon (actor), Gene Hackman (actor), Lawrence Kasdan (actor), Jeff Fahey (actor), John Doe (actor), Brett Cullen (actor), Kevin Costner (actor), Jim Caviezel (actor), Linden Ashby (actor), Mark Harmon (actor), Adam Baldwin (actor), Rex Linn (actor), Martin Kove (actor),
Plot: Wyatt Earp is a movie about a man and his family. The movie shows us the good times and the bad times of one of the West's most famous individuals.
Keywords: 1800s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 19th-century, action-hero, alaska, ambush, animal-hide, arkansasActors: Ken Russell (miscellaneous crew), Ken Russell (director), Arrigo Boito (writer), Arrigo Boito (composer), Paata Burchuladze (actor), Fabio Armiliato (actor), Paul Dufficey (costume designer), Ottavio Garaventa (actor), Richard Caceres (miscellaneous crew), Laura Bocca (actress), Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Carlo Felice (actor), Silvana Mazzieri (actress), Saverio Bambi (actor), Josella Ligi (actress), Adriana Morelli (actress),
Plot: Arrigo Boito's Il Mefestefele was first performed in 1868 and his most known work. In Ken Russell's modern interpretation presented by the Genoese Opera, it has Faust as an ageing hippy. He smokes marijuana and is tormented by his lost youth. Mephisto makes a bet with God that he can turn anyone to pagan life, even someone as innocent as Faust. From then on it is a battle of good against evil in a flamboyant, surreal display of primary colours, PVC costumes, nurses with swastikas, rocket trips, love and even characters dressed as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. Ken Russell said because the devil is always with us is his reason for the contemporary setting.
Keywords: operaActors: Robert Pugh (actor), Michael Sheard (actor), James Naughton (actor), Michael Kitchen (actor), Yves Brainville (actor), Michael Lonsdale (actor), Edward Hardwicke (actor), Anthony Hopkins (actor), Erick Desmarestz (actor), Martin Jarvis (actor), Julian Fellowes (actor), Patrick Floersheim (actor), Georges Corraface (actor), Piper Laurie (actress), Susan Blakely (actress),
Plot: In 1945, The Third Reich is in its death throes with the Allies relentlessly attacking the capital city of Berlin. Its Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, retreats into his fortified bunker in Berlin with his senior staff. There, gripped with both delusions of grandeur and despair, Hitler commands a hopeless last stand with resources existing largely in his own mind. While resisting the pleas of rational minions like Albert Speer, basic reality finally comes unavoidable. With that, Hitler and his fanatical fellows prepare for their own end even as their grandiose dreams are becoming a smoking ruin above.
Keywords: 1940s, anger, anti-semitism, based-on-book, berlin-germany, betrayal, bunker, cyanide, cyanide-capsule, dead-childrenActors: Elaine Schreyeck (miscellaneous crew), Richard Burton (actor), John Shirley (editor), Mario Nascimbene (composer), Richard Burton (producer), Richard Burton (director), Elizabeth Taylor (actress), Renzo Pevarello (actor), Richard Durden (actor), Richard Durden (actor), Richard Heffer (actor), Maria Aitken (actress), Ian Marter (actor), Ian Marter (actor), Richard McWhorter (producer),
Plot: Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.
Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, deal-with-the-devil, hellActors: Paul May (director), Helen Vita (actress), Rainer Penkert (actor), Rolf A. Wilhelm (composer), Eva Ingeborg Scholz (actress), Klaus Pohl (actor), Ellen Schwiers (actress), Joachim Fuchsberger (actor), O.E. Hasse (actor), Peter Carsten (actor), Mario Adorf (actor), Hans Christian Blech (actor), Hans Elwenspoek (actor), Walter Boos (editor), Emmerich Schrenk (actor),
Genres: Drama, War,Actors: Rolf A. Wilhelm (composer), Paul May (director), Eva Ingeborg Scholz (actress), Wolfgang Wahl (actor), Harry Hardt (actor), Paul May (writer), Hans Christian Blech (actor), Peter Carsten (actor), Hans Elwenspoek (actor), Rainer Penkert (actor), Rudolf Rhomberg (actor), Joachim Fuchsberger (actor), Mario Adorf (actor), Helen Vita (actress), Walter Boos (editor),
Genres: Drama, War,Actors: Charles Arling (actor), Val Paul (actor), Carmen Phillips (actress), Arvid E. Gillstrom (writer), Ralph Spence (writer), Arvid E. Gillstrom (director), Jane Lee (actress), Katherine Lee (actress), Katherine Griffith (actress), Ethel Fleming (actress), Barbara Maier (actress), Albert Glassmire (writer),
Genres: Comedy, War,THIS RECORDING IS WITHOUT WORDS!! Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic operas by the German composer Richard Wagner. Wagner wrote the libretto and music over the course of about twenty-six years, from 1848 to 1874. The four operas that constitute the Ring cycle are, in the order of the imagined events they portray: Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold) 0:00 Vorspiel 5:24 Zweite Szene 7:48 Dritte Szene 10:04 Heda! Heda hedo! Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) 11:57 Akt 1 14:53 Akt 1, Final 15:35 Akt 2, Prelude 18:06 Akt 3, The Ride of the Valkyries 21:21 Akt 3, Wotan's Farewell 26:37 Akt 3, Magic Fire Music Siegfried 28:00 Akt 1, Siegfried forges his sword 28:45 Akt 1, Final 29:02 Akt 2, Forest murmurs 31:06 Akt 2, Siegfried kill...
Love classical music? Learn to play the best PIANO pieces the easiest way: http://tinyurl.com/classic-flowkey Richard Wagner Tracklist 1. A Valquíria: Cavalgada das Valquírias 2. Rienzi Abertura em ré maior 3. Lohengrin Prelúdio do Terceiro At 4. O Idílio de Siegfried 5. Abertura de O Navio Fantasma 6. Abertura de Tannhäuser 7. Os Mestres Cantores de Nuremberg Abertura 8. Tristão e Isolda Prelúdio 9. Tannhäuser Bacanal 10. Lohengrin Prelúdio 11. O Ouro de Reno Entrada dos Deuses no Valhalla For more: http://www.melhoresmusicasclassicas.blogspot.com
Prelude to the first act from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde", german opera in three acts. Author: Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwangler & Philharmonia Orchestra Picture: Caspar Friedrich's "Meeresufer im Mondschein" (Seashore by Moonlight).
The Ride of the Valkyries (German: Walkürenritt or Ritt der Walküren) is the popular term for the beginning of Act III of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas by Richard Wagner that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen. The main theme of the ride, the leitmotif labelled Walkürenritt was first written down by the composer on 23 July 1851. The preliminary draft for the Ride was composed in 1854 as part of the composition of the entire opera which was fully orchestrated by the end of the first quarter of 1856. Together with the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin, the Ride of the Valkyries is one of Wagner's best-known pieces. In the opera-house, the Ride, which takes around eight minutes, begins in the prelude to the Act, building up successive layers of accompaniment until the curtain rises to r...
The World Rose: http://richardbrittain.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/the-world-rose One of Richard Wagner's greatest overtures. (Picture: "A Woodland Landscape", c. 1880, by Hans Anderson Brendekilde)
Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself inspired by the epic of Garin le Loherain. It is part of the Knight of the Swan tradition. The opera has proved inspirational towards other works of art. Among those deeply moved by the fairy-tale opera was the young King Ludwig II of Bavaria. 'Der Märchenkönig' ('The Fairy-tale King') as he was dubbed later built his ideal fairy-tale castle and dubbed it "New Swan Stone," or "Neuschwanstein", after the Swan Knight. It was King Ludwig's patronage that later gave Wagner the means and opportunity ...
00:00 Der Fliegende Hollander 10:36 Tannhauser 25:10 Die Walkure 28:52 Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg 38:12 Parsifal 52:32 Rienzi 1:03:59 Das Liebesverbot 1:12:08 Editor
The Symphony in C major is in four movements: 1. Sostenuto e maestoso - Allegro con brio 2. Andante ma non troppo, un poco maestoso 3. Allegro assai 4. Allegro molto e vivace
Richard Wagner - Ride Of The Valkyries
http://dennis-tschirner.jimdo.com/ https://www.facebook.com/dennis.tschirner.vocalist/ The Philharmonia, Yuri Simonov
Schauet hoch zum Sonnenrad -
Skoll tut schon seine Pflicht -
Gesänge gehen durch das Land -
Heute ziehen wir in die Schlacht -
Nehmt die Schwerter und die schilde, sagt den Weibern Lebetwohl -
Steigt aufs Pferd, auf zum Sieg -
Lasst uns streiten Brüder, die Götter sind mit uns -
Die goldene Halle sie öffnet die Tore weit, der Tisch ist schon gedeckt -
Wir bauen dem Einäugigen einen Thron auf den Knochen unserer Feinde -
Wir schicken die feigen heim zur Hel -
Thor ist mit uns -
Und werd ich fallen in dieser Schlacht, tragt meinen Leichnam heim zu meiner Frau -
Sagt ihr: keine Tränen, denn ich bin Daheim -
Gebt meinem Sohn mein Schwert und Schild -
Das Erbe liegt in seiner hand, den er ist jung und Stolz
Und dürstet nach des Vaters Mörder Blut -
Begleitet ihn auf diesen und auf allen Wegen -
Doch zuvor meine Brüder,
Lasst uns schlagen diese Schlacht:
Schauet hoch zum Sonnenrad -
Skoll tut noch seine Pflicht -
Gesänge gehen durch das Land -