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.

Richard Wagner's epic series of operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen, is sometimes referred to as a trilogy even though it consists of four works: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung.

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.

Last Saturday's interesting melange included Ernst Toch, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Yardumian and a brief excerpt from a new `` space '' opera by the Swedish composer, Karl-Birger Blomdahl.

This was intended to be the nec plus ultra of reform opera, a completely new synthesis of poetry and music that was an 18th-century anticipation of the ideals of Richard Wagner.

* Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner ( opera, composed 1848-1874 )

* Parsifal by Richard Wagner ( opera, composed 1880-1882 )

Not long afterwards, Richard D ' Oyly Carte was managing the Royalty Theatre, and he needed a short opera to be played as an afterpiece to Offenbach's La Périchole.

In opera, a new Romantic atmosphere combining supernatural terror and melodramatic plot in a folkloric context was first successfully achieved by Carl Maria von Weber ( 1786 – 1826 ) and perfected by Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 1883 ) in his Ring Cycle.

* 1911 – Richard Strauss ' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.

* 1909 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.

Nixon in China ( 1987 ): The opera, in three acts, is based on Richard Nixon's visit to China on February 21 – 25, 1972.

By the 19th century, accompagnato had gained the upper hand, the orchestra played a much bigger role, and Richard Wagner revolutionised opera by abolishing almost all distinction between aria and recitative in his quest for what he termed " endless melody ".

The move away from traditional tonality in opera had begun with Richard Wagner, and in particular the Tristan chord.

Heydrich was born in 1904 in Halle an der Saale to composer and opera singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Krantz, a Roman Catholic.

The story was the basis of André Ernest Modeste Grétry's opera Richard Coeur-de-Lion and seems to be the inspiration for the opening to Richard Thorpe's film version of Ivanhoe.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first adapted as an opera in 1978 by the composer Richard Blackford on commission from the village of Blewbury, Oxfordshire.

The Flying Dutchman ( Der fliegende Holländer ) is an opera, with music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

** Dutchman, The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner

Tradition has it that Terneuzen was once the home of the legendary Flying Dutchman, Van der Decken, a captain who cursed God and was condemned to sail the seas forever, as described in the Frederick Marryat novel The Phantom Ship and the Richard Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman.

In 2006, filmmaker Richard Linklater expressed an interest in adapting Last Flag Flying, a sequel to The Last Detail, into a film.

When the Prince was a school boy he was taken for a biplane ride by Moye Stephens, pilot of The Flying Carpet and Richard Halliburton, traveller-adventurist, during their round-the-world flight, shortly after Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight.

An account of young prince Ghazi's experience flying over his country can be found in Richard Halliburton's The Flying Carpet.

The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews ; Robert Bartlett ; Frederick Russell Burnham ; George Kruck Cherrie ; James L. Clark ; Merian C. Cooper ; Lincoln Ellsworth ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes ; George Bird Grinnell ; Charles A. Lindbergh ; Donald Baxter MacMillan ; Clifford H. Pope ; George P. Putnam ; Kermit Roosevelt ; Carl Rungius ; Stewart Edward White ; Orville Wright. Byrd Memorial on Mount Victoria, Wellington, New ZealandAlso in 1927, the City of Richmond dedicated the Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field, now Richmond International Airport, in Henrico County, Virginia.

* Richard Wagner-The Flying Dutchman

" The first Distinguished Flying Cross to be awarded to a Naval Aviator was received by then-Commander Richard E. Byrd, for his flight on May 9, 1926, to and from the North Pole.

* " Bony Moronie ": John Lennon, Johnny Burnette, Dr. Feelgood, Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels, Johnny Winter, Little Richard, Paul Jones, Bobby Comstock Showaddywaddy, The Who, Jumpin ' Gene Simmons, The Shadows, Ritchie Valens, Bill Haley & His Comets, The Creation, Freddy Fender, The Aztecs, The Rebel Rousers, The Standells, Hush.

* Well-known people from Coleraine include the actor James Nesbitt, the actress Michelle Fairley, the novelist Maggie O ' Farrell, David Cunningham from the band The Flying Lizards, the Ulster and Ireland rugby union player Andrew Trimble, British ladies ' figure skating champion Jenna McCorkell, Folk Singer Damien O ' Kane and Olympic Rowers Alan Campbell, Peter Chambers, Richard Chambers and Richard Archibald.

Many atheists, including Richard Dawkins, use parody religions such as those of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Invisible Pink Unicorn — as well as ancient gods like Zeus and Thor — as modern versions of Russell's teapot to argue that the burden of proof is on the believer, not the atheist.

Rickard also highlights amongst the key early Fortean Times advocates and supporters: Ion Alexis Will, who discovered The News in 1974 and became a " constant of valuable clippings, books, postcards and entertaining letters "; Janet and Colin Bord, later authors of Mysterious Britain ( Janet also wrote for Flying Saucer Review and Lionel Beer's Spacelink, while it was Colin's Fortean article in Gandalf's Garden that is particularly cited by Rickard as bringing him / them to his attention ); Phil Ledger, a " peripatetic marine biologist ", and The News < nowiki >'</ nowiki > " first enthusiastic fan "; Ken Campbell, Fortean playwright ; John Michell ; Richard Adams and Dick Gwynn, who both helped with the evolving layout and typesetting of later issues ; Chris Squire, who helped organise the first subscription database ; Canadian " Mr. X "; Mike Dash and cartoonist Hunt Emerson.

* September 15 – Flying an F-86A Sabre fighter, U. S. Air Force Major Richard L. Johnson sets a world speed record of 670. 981 mph ( 1, 079. 6 km / hr ).

* Philip Reeve's 2005 children's novel Infernal Devices refers briefly to a fictional organization called " Richard D ' Astardley's Flying Circus ".

Frontier Flying Service was established in 1950 by retired Air Force Colonel Richard McIntyre, catering to Alaska bush communities as a scheduled mail carrier for Wien Air Alaska, as well as providing charters throughout Alaska.

* The Dutchman, The Flying Dutchman ( Richard Wagner )

In early 2008, Kelcher formed The South Tonight with Richard James, who had also been in an early Flying Nun group, Mainly Spaniards.

World War I Flying Ace by Richard Mueller, ISBN 0-553-27231-4

Those are naval officer, pioneering aviator and explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd, for whom Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field ( the original name for Richmond International Airport ) was named.