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"My Dear, Dear, my own unique Girl! Already more than 24 hours apart from you after I have so often treasured every minute! What will come of this? I am lost in my misery and tears, and I can find joy in nothing, nothing whatever! You have become too dear to me, I am sure of that, you dear and lovely child! How can I become accustomed so soon to our separation? How can I bear your absence? You have become part of me, and without you I feel in all my limbs as if a part of me were missing. Alas, if you felt only half my longing, then you too would be filled with love and memories. I still wept after you had gone."

Letter from Richard Wagner to Minna Planer May 6th, 1835. [1]


"I came to realise more and more that my friend Wagner was not happy in his married life. I had felt the winter before that his wife was little suited to him and that she was not capable of raising him above the many petty and sordid cares and conditions of life, nor of lessening them with greatness of soul and feminine charm. This man, so utterly dominated by his daemon, should always have a high-minded, understanding woman by his side - a wife who would have known how to mediate between his genius and the world, by understanding that these are always hostile one to the other. Frau Wagner never grasped this. She wanted to mediate by demanding from the genius concessions to the world which he could not and should not make. From her inability to grasp the essence of genius and its relations to the world, there arose constant friction in their daily life. This was augmented by their not having any children - usually the one reconciling and softening element in marriage. Nevertheless Frau Wagner was a good woman, and in the eyes of the world decidedly the better and the more unhappy of the two."

Malwida von Meysenbug, 1937.[2]


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"... on Good Friday I awoke to find the sun shining brightly for the first time in this house: the little garden was radiant with green, the birds sang, and at last I could sit on the roof and enjoy the long-yearned-for peace with its message of promise. Full of this sentiment, I suddenly remembered that the day was Good Friday, and I called to mind the significance this omen had already once assumed for me when I was reading Wolfram's Parzival. Since the sojourn in Marienbad [in the summer of 1845], where I had conceived Die Meistersinger and Lohengrin, I had never occupied myself again with that poem; now its noble possibilities struck me with overwhelming force, and out of my thoughts about Good Friday I rapidly conceived a whole drama, of which I made a rough sketch with a few dashes of the pen, dividing the whole into three acts." [3]

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"in Flucht geschlagen, wähnt er zu jagen; hört nicht sein eigen Schmerzgekreisch,
wenn er sich wühlt ins eig'ne Fleisch, wähnt Lust sich zu erzeigen!"

"driven into flight he believes he is hunting, and does not hear his own cry of pain:
when he tears into his own flesh, he imagines he is giving himself pleasure!"




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Conductor Orchestra Year Label Stereo/Mono Parsifal Kundry Gurnemanz Amfortas Klingsor
Hans Knappertsbusch Bayreuth Festival Orchestra 1951 Teldec Mono Wolfgang Windgassen Martha Mödl Ludwig Weber George London Hermann Uhde
Hans Knappertsbusch Bayreuth Festival Orchestra 1962 Philips Stereo Jess Thomas Irene Dalis Hans Hotter George London Gustav Niedlinger
Pierre Boulez Bayreuth Festival Orchestra 1970 Deutsche Grammophon Stereo James King Dame Gwyneth Jones Franz Crass Thomas Stewart Sir Donald McIntyre

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Conductor Orchestra Year Label Stereo/Mono Live/Studio
Wilhelm Furtwängler La Scala Opera Orchestra 1950 Music & Arts, Opera D'Oro, Gebhardt, Archipel Mono Live

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strings woodwinds brass percussion


Gods[5] Mortals Valkyries Rhinemaidens, Giants & Nibelungs Other Characters
  • Wotan, King of the Gods (god of light, air, and wind) (bass-baritone)
  • Fricka, Wotan's wife, goddess of marriage (mezzo-soprano)
  • Freia, Fricka's sister, goddess of love, youth, and beauty (soprano)
  • Donner, Fricka's brother, god of thunder (baritone)
  • Froh, Fricka's brother, god of spring/happiness (tenor)
  • Erda, goddess of wisdom/fate/Earth (contralto)
  • Loge, demigod of fire (tenor in Das Rheingold, represented instrumentally elsewhere)
  • The Norns, the weavers of fate, daughters of Erda (contralto, mezzo-soprano, soprano)

Wälsungs

Neidings

  • Hunding, Sieglinde's husband, chief of the Neidings (bass)

Gibichungs

  • Gunther, King of the Gibichungs, son of King Gibich and Queen Grimhilde (baritone)
  • Gutrune, his sister (soprano)
  • Hagen, their half-brother, son of Alberich and Queen Grimhilde (bass)
  • A male choir of Gibichung vassals and a small female choir of women
  • Brünnhilde (soprano)
  • Waltraute (mezzo-soprano)
  • Helmwige (soprano)
  • Gerhilde (soprano)
  • Siegrune (mezzo-soprano)
  • Schwertleite (mezzo-soprano)
  • Ortlinde (soprano)
  • Grimgerde (mezzo-soprano)
  • Rossweisse (mezzo-soprano)

Rheinmaidens

  • Woglinde (soprano)
  • Wellgunde (soprano)
  • Flosshilde (mezzo-soprano)

Giants

Nibelungs

  • Alberich (baritone)
  • Mime, his brother, and Siegfried's foster father (tenor)
  • The Voice of a Woodbird (soprano)


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  1. ^ Burk, John N, (1950). "Letters of Richard Wagner - The Burrell Collection. " page 25.
  2. ^ Spencer, Stewart (2000) "Wagner Remembered" Faber & Faber Ltd. page 121.
  3. ^ "Wagner, Richard "Mein Leben" vol II at Project Gutenberg". Retrieved October 8 2007. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. ^ Wayne 2004, p. 447.
  5. ^ John Weinstock, Professor (2007). "The Wagner Experience – Immortals Family Tree". Characters and Relationships. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 28 October 2007.

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