Documentary: Richard Wagner (Composer opera music)

Richard Wagner a biography in words and pictures (see table of contents below). The places where Wagner worked and the most important people in his life.

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:45 Birth in Leipzig
• 01:54 Youth in Dresden
• 03:27 Studies in Leipzig
• 04:05 Years of wandering (Magdeburg, Riga etc.)
• 06:43 The birth of the flying Dutchman
• 07:57 Paris and burgeoning anti-Semitism
• 09:37 Breakthrough in Dresden with Rienzi
• 10:16 Wartburg and the birth of Tannhäuser
• 14:03 Kapellmeister and revolutionary in Dresden
• 14:46 Exile in Zurich, Tristan and Isolde
• 17:05 Tannhäuser fiasco in Paris
• 19:05 Tristan fiasco in Vienna, work on Die Meistersinger
• 21:59 The Miracle of Munich, Ludwig II
• 25:55 Cosima, Wagner and the women
• 28:47 Exile in Lucerne
• 30:23 Bayreuth years
• 33:10 The last years
• 34:06 Epilogue, Bayreuth after Wagner’s death