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3 unusual facts about Wagner Dream


Wagner Dream

It is based on legends which Wagner discovered in Eugène Burnouf's 1844 Introduction to the History of Buddhism.

Wagner Dream is an opera by Jonathan Harvey, premiered in 2007, to a libretto by Jean-Claude Carrière, which intertwines events on the last day of the life of Richard Wagner with elements from a fragmentary opera sketch by Wagner himself, Die Sieger (The Victors).

The composer also visited Chamonix to sample a thunderclap, used to preface an argument between Wagner and his wife.



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