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Die Feen
The first completed world
A mortal crosses into a fairy realm where love is tested by a prohibition, a disappearance and the power of song.
- Written
- 1833–34
- Premiere
- 1888 · Munich
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Archive I / The stage works
Thirteen completed
Wagner worlds.
This archive gathers Richard Wagner's thirteen completed stage works. Every opera opens into an animated interpretation with action, characters, theatrical forces, archival imagery and, later, current performances.
All thirteen doors are open.01 / Completed works
The complete catalogue
The first three works stand beside the ten titles of the Bayreuth canon. They are not footnotes, but part of the same development.02Early work
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Das Liebesverbot
Desire against prohibition
A city tries to outlaw pleasure. Carnival, hypocrisy and sensual freedom turn authority into farce.
- Written
- 1834–36
- Premiere
- 1836 · Magdeburg
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Rienzi
The crowd makes a hero
A tribune rises through public hope and falls when spectacle, faith and political power become indistinguishable.
- Written
- 1837–40
- Premiere
- 1842 · Dresden
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Der fliegende Holländer
A life without arrival
An endless voyage may be broken by fidelity, but the promise of redemption carries its own violence.
- Written
- 1840–41
- Premiere
- 1843 · Dresden
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Tannhäuser
Desire and judgment
Sacred and sensual worlds collide, neither strong enough to contain the whole human being.
- Written
- 1842–45
- Premiere
- 1845 · Dresden
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Lohengrin
The forbidden question
Trust is demanded without knowledge. The miracle collapses the moment mystery is named.
- Written
- 1845–48
- Premiere
- 1850 · Weimar
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Das Rheingold
The theft that makes a world
Gold becomes a ring, the ring becomes law, and the first bargain already contains the catastrophe to come.
- Written
- 1853–54
- Premiere
- 1869 · Munich
The Ring · Vorabend
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Die Walküre
Love breaks the law
Human tenderness proves more truthful than divine command, and punishment becomes an act of impossible care.
- Written
- 1854–56
- Premiere
- 1870 · Munich
The Ring · First day
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Tristan und Isolde
Night without end
Harmony becomes longing itself, always moving toward a resolution that life cannot provide.
- Written
- 1857–59
- Premiere
- 1865 · Munich
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Tradition made alive
An art form survives not by freezing its rules, but by allowing a new voice to transform them.
- Written
- 1862–67
- Premiere
- 1868 · Munich
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Siegfried
A hero without memory
Fearless because he has inherited no caution, Siegfried crosses the ruins of the old order and awakens what it tried to contain.
- Written
- 1856–71
- Premiere
- 1876 · Bayreuth
The Ring · Second day
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Götter
The order burns
Betrayal closes the circle. Gods, heroes and contracts vanish before the ring can return to the river.
- Written
- 1869–74
- Premiere
- 1876 · Bayreuth
The Ring · Third day
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Parsifal
Compassion as knowledge
A final stage ritual where suffering can only be understood by being felt, and time itself appears to become space.
- Written
- 1877–82
- Premiere
- 1882 · Bayreuth
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02 / The spectral archive
Unfinished and unrealized
Not every imagined theatre became music. These projects remain a separate research layer rather than being confused with the thirteen completed works.- 1832
Die Hochzeit
Unfinished score
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Männerlist größer als Frauenlist
Unfinished comic opera
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Die Sarazenin
Libretto draft
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Jesus von Nazareth
Prose draft
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Wieland der Schmied
Prose draft
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