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| The Richard Wagner Archive | ||
| This site offers extensive biographical and historical information on Richard Wagner as well as the stories, librettos, and performance histories of his operas. ( http://users.utu.fi/hansalmi/wagner.spml ) | ||
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| Wagner and Star Wars | ||
| This imaginative site offers a wealth of information on Wagner's Ring including his use of the leitmotif to characterize the music. Among other offerings are a wonderful comparison of the Ring Cycle to the Star Wars movies, translations of Wagner's writings, and an interactive map tracing Wagner's history in Europe. ( http://www.trell.org/wagner/ ) | ||
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| Richard Wagner Home Page | ||
| This Wagner site includes biographical information, an introduction to the Ring Cycle and even MIDI files of leitmotivs from the Ring. ( http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/2906/wagner.html ) | ||
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| Richard Wagner | ||
| This site offers MIDI files of themes from Wagner's operas (played on synthesizer) with the score alongside for a great study guide. It also contains translations of the libretti of the various operas and photos of the composer. ( http://www.rwagner.net/e-frame.html ) | ||
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| The Met Ring Cycle and Wagner | ||
| This site offers great images of the sets and costumes from Ring productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the San Francisco Opera, along with biographies of Wagner and of the singers who sing the various roles. ( http://www.ffaire.com/wagner ) | ||
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| Multidimensional Aspects of Text and Music in Wagner | ||
| This unique site discusses the merging of arts in the music dramas of Wagner with a focused discussion of this process in scene 2 of Das Rheingold. ( http://www.trell.org/wagner/multi.html ) | ||
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| The Story of the Volsungs | ||
| This site offers a very complete rendering of the Saga of the Volsungs, the mythology that served as the story Wagner used for the Ring Cycle. ( http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Volsunga/ ) | ||
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| Wagner and the Saga of the Volsungs | ||
| This site describes the direct relationship between Wagner's Ring and the Saga of theVolsungs, using Wagner's writings for clarification. ( http://www.viking.ucla.edu/volsungs/wagner.html ) | ||
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| Wagner and Hitler | ||
| This site reviews the often debated relationship between the writings and music of Wagner and the rise of Hitler and the Nazi regime in the twentieth century. The relationship is still so powerful that orchestras in Israel are unable to program any music by Wagner despite his legacy as one of the great composers in history. ( http://www.lafolia.com/archive/glasgal/glasgal200204wagner.html ) | ||
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