the composer out of the country. He fled to Switzerland, where the besotted King purchased a villa for him. Ludwig also advanced Wagner 200,000 marks to build the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, which opened in 1876. After Wagner left Bavaria, King Ludwig became a morbid recluse. He occupied himself constructing fantastic castles like the ‘fairytale’ Neuschwanstein. Ludwig was ...
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scandalizes the Paris Opéra 1865 Premiere of Tristan under Bülow 1868 Triumphant premiere of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Munich 1869 Work on the Ring resumes 1872 Foundation stone of Bayreuth Festspielhaus laid 1874 Score of the Ring finally completed 1876 First Bayreuth festival and premiere of entire Ring cycle 1878 Composition of Parsifal begins 1882 Second Bayreuth festival and premiere of ...
and Peace 1871 France loses the Franco–Prussian War; riots and commune follow in Paris 1874 First Impressionist exhibition is held in Paris, including Monet’s Impression: Sunrise 1876 The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with the first performance of Wagner’s Ring 1881 Tsar Alexander II is assassinated; Dostoyevsky completes The Brothers Karamazov 1886 German philosopher Karl Marx finishes Das Kapital 1887 First performance ...
, begun in 1864 1871 France loses Franco-Prussian war; riots and Commune follow in Paris 1874 First Impressionist exhibition is held in Paris; includes Claude Monet’s Impression: Sunrise 1876 Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with the first complete performance of Wagner’s Ring; the Franco-Prussian war breaks out 1879 The Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen’s realist play The Doll’s House first performed 1881 Tsar Alexander ...
Bayreuth in Bavaria had had an opera house, the Margraves’ Opera House, for 130 years before King Ludwig II contributed towards the construction of the Festspielhaus – the Festival Theatre. The foundation stone was laid on 22 May 1872, and the 1,345-seat theatre opened four years later (it has since been repeatedly enlarged and now seats 1 ...
able to seat 2,700, is located at the Place de la Bastille. Styles & Forms | High Romantic | Opera Houses & Companies | King Ludwig & the Festspielhaus | High Romantic | Opera ...
intellectual spheres. The struggle to escape the musical influence of Tristan became one of the distinguishing features of the early modern period in music. The opening of the specially built Festspielhaus in Bayreuth in 1876 attracted musicians, monarchs, writers and philosophers from all over the world. The effect of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (‘The Nibelung’s Ring’) ...
city has access to an unparalleled diversity of opera. Elsewhere in Germany, the most celebrated opera houses are in Munich and at Bayreuth, where Wagner opened his custom-built Festspielhaus in 1876. Only Wagner’s operas are performed in the Festspielhaus, though there is pressure for that to change. While most opera houses are nineteenth-century edifices, Drottningholm in Sweden ...
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