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Wieland and Wagner
The Bayreuth Festival opens July 23 with a new production of `` Tannhaeuser '' staged by Wieland Wagner, who is doing all the operas this time, and conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch.
Among the more significant post-war productions was that directed in 1951 by Wieland Wagner, the composer's grandson.
Wieland Wagner, the grandson of the composer, Richard Wagner, was the deputy civilian director there from September 1944 to April 1945.
In 1951, the first post-war Richard Wagner Festival took place under the leadership of Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner.
* July 29 – The annual Bayreuth Festival resumes for the first time since the Second World War, now under the general direction of Wieland Wagner, with an opening concert of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler, followed by productions of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Parsifal, and Die Meistersinger.
Performances of Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre with innovative stage sets by Wieland Wagner were enthusiastically received.
Under the direction of Wieland Wagner, the " New Bayreuth " ushered in an era that was no less than revolutionary.
She gained international renown when she was cast by Wieland Wagner ( Richard Wagner's grandson ) as Venus at Bayreuth in 1961, at age 24, the first black singer to appear there.
Proksch was the first husband of the actress Daphne Wagner, daughter of Wieland Wagner, great-granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner and great-great-granddaughter of Franz Liszt.
Having already sung the Rheingold Wotan and the Siegfried Wanderer roles at the Met in New York in December ' 61 and January ' 62, he was ready to sing his first complete Ring Cycle. This was to be the now legendary new production mounted by Wieland Wagner at the Cologne Opera in West Germany in May 1962. Wieland was ready to try out new singers and production ideas in advance of his new Bayreuth Festival production which was scheduled for the summer of 1965 with London as Wotan and the Wanderer.
In 1951 the Bayreuth Festival reopened and the new leader Wieland Wagner asked her to sing Sieglinde.
This accomplishment drew the attention of Wieland Wagner who took it upon himself to get Braun a contract with the Frankfurt Opera.
In that year she also made her debut at Bayreuth after Flagstad, who had declined the invitation to Bayreuth, recommended that Wieland Wagner engage Varnay.
In addition to his elder brother Wieland ( 1917 – 66 ), he had an elder sister Friedelind Wagner ( 1918 – 1991 ), and a younger sister Verena Wagner ( Verena Lafferenz, born 1920 ).
Wolfgang worked with his older brother Wieland Wagner in 1951 on the resurrection of the Bayreuth Festival following Germany's collapse after the Second World War.

Wieland and 1965
* Wieland Schmied, Carl Vogel: Horst Janssen ( with a catalogue of graphic art to 1965 by Carl Vogel ), kestnergesellschaft 1965

Wagner and Lohengrin
* The " Bridal Chorus " from Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, often used as the processional and commonly known as " Here Comes the Bride ".
Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850.
The first production of Lohengrin was in Weimar, Germany on 28 August 1850 at the Staatskapelle Weimar under the direction of Franz Liszt, a close friend and early supporter of Wagner.
One factor that helped Wagner choose which symphony to accept the dedication of was that the Third contains quotations from Wagner's music dramas, such as Die Walküre and Lohengrin.
In 1874 Strauss heard his first Wagner operas, Lohengrin and Tannhäuser.
The German equivalent of the Spinto fach is the Jugendlicher Heldentenor and encompasses many of the Dramatic tenor roles as well as some Wagner roles such as Lohengrin and Stolzing.
* Lohengrin, Lohengrin ( Wagner )
The concert was held at East Pyongyang Grand Theatre, with a program including the national anthems of both North Korea ( Aegukka ) and the United States ( The Star-Spangled Banner ), the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 " From the New World ", George Gershwin's An American in Paris, Georges Bizet's Farandole, Leonard Bernstein's Overture to Candide, and the popular Korean folk song Arirang.
In the 19th century, the triangle was used in some music by Richard Wagner, such as the " Bridal chorus " from " Lohengrin " ( opera ).
* Wagner Die Meistersinger Suite, Flying Dutchman Overture, Götterdämmerung Funeral March and Rhine Journey, Lohengrin Prelude, Parsifal Karfreitagszauber, Die Meistersinger Prelude, Ride of the Valkries
However, from the early 1840s, as Wagner developed Tannhäuser and Lohengrin, his ideas on opera increasingly diverged from Meyerbeerean standards ; even in 1843 Wagner had written to Schumann condemning Meyerbeer's work as ' a striving after superficial popularity '.
In 1890, the year before the Paris premiere of Wagner's Lohengrin, there were no Wagner performances at the Paris Opéra, and 32 performances of Meyerbeer's four grand operas.
** Anthony Salvatore ( engineer ), Erich Leinsdorf ( conductor ), the Pro Musica Chorus & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Wagner: Lohengrin
* Wagner, R. The Tale of Lohengrin Harrap 1913
** Christopher Raeburn ( producer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ), Plácido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Siegmund Nimsgern, Jessye Norman, Eva Randova, Hans Sotin, & the Vienna State Opera Orchestra for Wagner: Lohengrin
By this time his interest in Wagner had begun to cool ; he had written a disparaging review of the first Vienna production of Lohengrin.
** Christopher Raeburn ( producer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ), Plácido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Siegmund Nimsgern, Jessye Norman, Eva Randova, Hans Sotin, & the Vienna State Opera Orchestra for Wagner: Lohengrin
* Wagner, Lohengrin with Rudolf Kempe ( EMI ), as Friedrich von Telramund
* Wagner, Lohengrin, with Eugen Jochum ( Conductor ), Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, 1954, as the Heerrufer
* Wagner, Lohengrin, with Georg Solti, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, as the Heerrufer ( Decca )
** Anthony Salvatore ( engineer ), Erich Leinsdorf ( conductor ), the Pro Musica Chorus & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Wagner: Lohengrin
Chamberlain was an admirer of Richard Wagner, and wrote several commentaries on his works including Notes sur Lohengrin (" Notes on Lohengrin ") ( 1892 ), an analysis of Wagner's drama ( 1892 ), and a biography ( 1895 ), emphasizing in particular the heroic Teutonic aspects in the composer's works.

Wagner and 1965
* Wagner, Jean ( 1965 ).
* Wagner Aerocar – 1965, The Wagner FJ-V3 Aerocar was a prototype 4-place flying automobile.
* Lieutenant général G. Wagner ( 01. 07. 1963-31. 03. 1965 )
Then-New York City mayor, Robert F. Wagner, Jr., commissioned Frederick Pittera, a producer of international fairs and exhibitions, and author of the history of International Fairs & Exhibitions for the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Compton's Encyclopedia, to prepare the first feasibility studies for the 1964 / 1965 New York World's Fair.
Under the command of its new owner and president, Wagner Canhedo, VASP quickly expanded operations in the country, and created international routes, being the second Brazilian company to do so after 1965.
The Commission was created in April 1965 by Mayor Robert F. Wagner following the destruction of Pennsylvania Station the previous year to make way for the construction of the current Madison Square Garden.
During the year 1965, he launched J ' ai choisi de me battre: petite histoire très personnelle du séparatisme québécois, de Maurice Duplessis à Claude Wagner, a book of 160 pages, published by Club du livre du Québec in Montreal.
* J ' ai choisi de me battre: petite histoire très personnelle du séparatisme québécois de Maurice Duplessis à Claude Wagner ( 1965 )
* Wagner Aerocar, a roadable helicopter completed in 1965
Robert Ferdinand Wagner II, usually known as Robert F. Wagner, Jr. ( April 20, 1910 – February 12, 1991 ) served three terms as the mayor of New York City, from 1954 through 1965.
In 1965, Wagner decided not to run for a fourth term as mayor.
After deciding not to run for a fourth term in 1965, Wagner served as ambassador to Spain from 1968 to 1969.
Born in Edenwold, Saskatchewan, Wagner received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Divinities from the University of Saskatchewan in 1958, a Master of Arts in 1960 and Ph. D. in Near Eastern Studies in 1965 from the University of Toronto.
She made her first appearance at the Bayreuth festival in 1965 singing in three of her Wagner roles: Mary, the First Norn, and Erda.
* Robert Wagner ( darts player ) ( born 1965 ), darts player from Norway

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