01Early work
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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 Wagner's thirteen completed stage works. Every work now opens into its own animated interpretation, with a dramatic map, characters, theatrical forces, archival imagery and a path toward live performance listings.
All thirteen doors are open.01 / Completed works
The full catalogue
The first three works remain present beside the ten titles of the Bayreuth canon.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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03Early work
WWV 49
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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04Bayreuth canon
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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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05Bayreuth canon
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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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06Bayreuth canon
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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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07Bayreuth canon
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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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09Bayreuth canon
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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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10Bayreuth canon
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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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11Bayreuth canon
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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 catalogue
Unfinished and unrealized
Not every imagined theatre became music. These projects will form 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
WWV 48 - 1841–43
Die Sarazenin
Libretto draft
WWV 66 - 1849
Jesus von Nazareth
Prose draft
WWV 80 - 1849–50
Wieland der Schmied
Prose draft
WWV 82