Schweitzer saw many operas of Richard Wagner at Straßburg ( under Otto Lohse ), and in 1896 he pulled together the funds to visit Bayreuth to see Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, and was deeply affected.

To many Germans, the expression " stab in the back " was evocative of Richard Wagner's 1876 opera Götterdämmerung, in which Hagen murders his enemy Siegfried with a spear in his back.

Sanskrit priyā " beloved ") and was known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time: e. g. Friggja in Sweden, Frīg ( genitive Frīge ) in Old English, and Fricka in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Fricka rides a chariot in this illustration by Arthur Rackham to Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.

When they warned him that they would ask Charles Gounod instead and then threatened to engage Richard Wagner's services, Verdi began to show considerable interest, and agreements were signed in June 1870.

( Twilight of the Gods ) is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring for short ).

Henry returned to public attention as a character in Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin ( 1850 ), trying to gain the support of the Brabantian nobles against the Magyars.

The combination of hushed reverence, chromatic harmonies and sexualized imagery in Richard Wagner's late opera Parsifal gave new significance to the grail theme, for the first time associating the grail – now periodically producing blood – directly with female fertility.

* 1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.

Illustration inspired by Richard Wagner | Wagner's music drama Das Rheingold

The Wagner tuba, a modified member of the horn family, appears in Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and several other works by Richard Strauss, Béla Bartók, and others ; it has a prominent role in Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in E Major.

The next major expansion of symphonic practice came from Richard Wagner's Bayreuth orchestra, founded to accompany his musical dramas.

* Das Rheingold – inspired by the Nibelungenlied, the Rhine is one of the settings for the first opera of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.

His two forenames were patriotic musical tributes: " Reinhard " referred to the tragic hero from Amen ( an opera written by his father ), and " Tristan " stems from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

* 1869 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.

* Siegmund, a focal character in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre

Eisenstein returned to teaching and was assigned to direct Richard Wagner's Die Walküre at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Ocarina of Time and its use of melodic themes to identify different game regions has been called a reverse of Richard Wagner's use of leitmotifs to identify characters and themes.

At one point, Dorian attends a performance of Richard Wagner's opera, Tannhäuser, and is explicitly said to personally identify with the work.

Examples include K. Ehrenberg's charcoal illustration Gastmahl in Walhalla ( mit einziehenden Einheriern ) ( 1880 ), Richard Wagner's depiction of Valhalla in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1848 – 1874 ), the Munich, Germany-based Germanic Neopagan magazine Walhalla ( 1905 – 1913 ), and the comic series Valhalla ( 1978, ongoing ) by Peter Madsen, and its subsequent animated film of the same name ( 1986 ).

In 2011 he was selected to stage the 2013 cycle of Richard Wagner's Ring der Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival, a reflection of his capacity to produce imaginative tributes to great works of art.

Kandinsky was similarly influenced during this period by Richard Wagner's Lohengrin which, he felt, pushed the limits of music and melody beyond standard lyricism.

** Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre is first performed at Munich's National Theatre.

* Richard Rahl carries The Sword of Truth on a baldric in Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy series of the same name.

Richard Ned Lebow terms Thucydides " the last of the tragedians ", stating that " Thucydides drew heavily on epic poetry and tragedy to construct his history, which not surprisingly is also constructed as a narrative.

Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung ) is a cycle of four epic operas by the German composer Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 83 ).

After an appearance in the acclaimed Showtime broadcast of Almos ' a Man, based on a story by Richard Wright, he starred in the epic NBC miniseries Captains and Kings, based on Taylor Caldwell's novel.

Richard Wagner is perhaps most famous in this regard, with his transformations of Germanic legends and events into epic subjects for his operas and music dramas.

Among the more notable adaptations of this text are Richard Wagner's tetralogy of music dramas Der Ring des Nibelungen, Ernest Reyer's opera Sigurd, William Morris's epic poem The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.

Despite its impressive run in publication, The Robe is more familiar today as a 1953 Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman tribune named Marcellus Gallio ( Richard Burton ) who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus Christ.

Fafnir appears — as " Fafner " — in Richard Wagner's epic opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1848-1874 ), although he began life as a giant rather than a dwarf.

* Richard Egan in the 1962 epic The 300 Spartans.

Wallace Beery's notable silent films include Arthur Conan Doyle's dinosaur epic The Lost World ( 1925 ; as Professor Challenger ), Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks ( Beery played King Richard the Lionheart in this film and a sequel the following year called Richard the Lion-Hearted ), Last of the Mohicans ( 1920 ), The Round-Up ( 1920 ; with Roscoe Arbuckle ), Old Ironsides ( 1926 ), Now We're in the Air ( 1927 ), The Usual Way ( 1913 ), Casey at the Bat ( 1927 ), and Beggars of Life ( 1928 ) with Louise Brooks.

The film also shows fragments of an epic Biblical film supposedly made by McKenzie in a giant set in the forests of New Zealand, and a ' computer enhancement ' of a McKenzie film providing clear evidence that New Zealander Richard Pearse was the first man to invent a powered aircraft, several months prior to the Wright Brothers.

According to Richard Frye, " The extent of influence of the Iranian epic is shown by the Turks who accepted it as their own ancient history as well as that of Iran ...

Richard Williams ' magnum opus, a painstakingly hand-animated epic inspired by the Arabian Nights and with the production title The Thief and the Cobbler, was begun in 1964 and was initially self-funded.

In Richard Attenborough's 1982 epic Gandhi, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was portrayed by Dilsher Singh.

South African film-maker Richard Wicksteed has produced a number of documentaries on San / Bushman culture, history and present situation ; these include " In God's Places / Iindawo ZikaThixo " ( 1995 ) on the Bushman cultural legacy in the southern Drakensberg ; " Death of a Bushman " ( 2002 ) on the murder of Bushman tracker Optel Rooi by South African police ; " The Will To Survive " ( 2009 ) which covers the history and situation of Bushman communities in southern Africa today ; and " My Land is My Dignity " ( 2009 ) on the San's epic land rights struggle in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

Although poetry in traditional classical forms had mostly fallen out of fashion by the 1960s, the practice was kept alive by poets of great formal virtuosity like James Merrill ( 1926 – 995 ), author of the epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover, Richard Wilbur, and British-born San Francisco poet Thom Gunn.

The name of the island of Flores has been made familiar to generations of English readers by the quotation: " At Flores in the Azores, where Sir Richard Grenville lay ...", which is the opening line of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's epic poem, " The Revenge, A Ballad of the Fleet ".

Some elements are similar to those found in Richard Wagner's epic " Ring Cycle " and in earlier Celtic literature, but with some of the values inverted.

Earlier attempts to write a national epic, such as The Columbiad of Richard Snowden ( 1753-1825 ), ‘ a poem on the American war ’ published in 1795, or Joel Barlow's Vision of Columbus ( 1787 ) ( rewritten and entitled The Columbiad in 1809 ), were considered derivative.

* Gettysburg ( 1993 ): Caulfield starred alongside Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Sam Elliott, and Martin Sheen in Ronald F. Maxwell's 254 minute epic film, which co-starred Kevin Conway, C. Thomas Howell, Richard Jordan, James Lancaster, and Stephen Lang.

He appeared in the biblical epic The Robe ( 1953 ) as the weaver Justus of Cana, " whose words were like his work: simple, lasting, and strong ," as Marcellus Gallio ( Richard Burton ) put it later in the film.

Richard Elliott Friedman has recently suggested in his book The Hidden Book in the Bible that the Court History and the Accession History were originally part of a single historical epic by the Yahwist author covering the history of the Israelite world until the time of David and Solomon.

The inaugural production in the new opera house was Richard Wagner ’ s epic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung ), attended by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, as well as numerous other Canadian luminaries.