Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini and others
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Richard Wagner Leipzig, May 22, 1813-Venice, Feb. 13, 1883
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 Neueschwanstein
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 Bayreuth, Festspielhaus
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both were built by "The Mad" King Ludwig of Barvaria with the encouragement of or directly for Wagner
Nuremberg, setting for Die Meistersinger
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1) Nuremberg,cathedral and 2) Durerhaus after WW2 bombing. 3) Cathedral and 4) Durerhaus after reconstruction
Die Meistersinger takes place in 15th-century Nuremberg
 Ride of the Valkyries
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 The Rhine Maidens taunt Siegfried
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 Tristan and Isolde
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Works by Wagner
Die Feen, Munich, 1888
Das Liebesverbot, oder Die Novize von Palermo, Magdeburg, 1836
Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen, Dresden, 1842
Der fliegende Holländer, Dresden, 1841
Tannhäuser und der Singerkrieg auf Wartburg, Dresden, 1845
Lohengrin, Weimar, 1850
Tristan und Isolde, Munich, 1865
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Munich, 1868
Parsifal, Bayeuth, 1882
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Das Rheingold, Munich, 1870
Die Walküre, Munich, 1870
Siegfried, Bayreuth, 1876
Götterdämmerung, Bayreuth, 1876
First compete performance of the Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in 1876
other compositions
Das Liebesmahl der Apostei, for orchestra and male choruses, first performed in 1843 in the Dresden Frauenkirche,with and orchestra of a hundred and 1200 voices
Wesendonck Lieder, 1857, for female voice and orchestra ("Five Songs for Female voice"),
on poems by Mathilde Wesendonck
Siegfried Idyll, 1869, on the birth of Wagner and Cosima's son, Siegfried, at Tripschen
"American Centenial March," Philadelphia, 1876 (for which Wagner was paid $5,000) entitled
Grosser Festsmarsch zur Er
öffnung der hundertj
ährigen Gedenkfeier der Unabh
ängigkeitserkl
ärung der
vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika
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Giuseppe Verdi Le Roncole, 1813-Milan, 1901
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 La Scala, Milan
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 Rigoletto
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 Aida, Amonasro and
Radames
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Works by Verdi
Nabucco, La Scala, Milan, 1842
Ernani, La Fenice, Venice, 1844
Giovanna d'Arco, La Scala, Milan, 1845
Attila, La Fenice, Venice, 1846
Luisa Miller, San Carlo, Naples, 1849
Rigoletto, La Fenice, Venice,1851
Il trovatore, Apollo, Rome, 1853
La traviata, La Fenice, Venice, 1853
Le Vêpres sicilienne, L'Opéra, Paris, 1855
Simon Boccanegra, La Fenice, Venice, 1857
Un ballo in maschera, Apollo, Rome, 1859
La forza del destino, Imperial, St. Petersburg, 1862
Don Carlos, L'Opéra, Paris, 1867
Aida, L'Opéra, Cairo, 1871
Otello, La Scala, Milan, 1887
Falstaff, La Scala, Milan, 1893
Inno delle nazioni, Her Majesty's, London, 1862
Messa da Requiem, San Marco, Milan, 1874, Albert Hall, London, 1875
Ave Maria (Scala enigmatica armonizzata a quattro voci miste), Parma, 1889
Laudi alla Vergine Maria, Paris, 1898
Te Deum, Paris, 1898
Stabat Mater, Paris, 1898
Giacomo Puccini
Lucca 1858-Brussels, 1924
Manon Lescaut
La bohème
Madama Butterfly
Puccini and Toscanini
Works by Puccini
Edgar, La Scala, Milan, 1889
Manon Lescaut, Teatro Reggio, Parma, 1893
La bohème, Teatro Reggio, Parma, 1896
Madama Butterfly (first version), La Scala, Milan, 1904
La fanciulla del west, Metropolitan Opera, New York, 1910
La rondine, Opéra de Monte Carlo, 1917
Il trittico (Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi), Metropolitan Opera, New York, 1918
Turandot, completed 1926 by Alfano (revised by Arturo Toscanini), La Scala, Milan, 1926
Arturo Toscanini conducted the premieres of La bohème, La fanciulla del west, and Turandot
