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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 88. Chapters: List of operas and operettas by Audran, List of operas and operettas by Chabrier, List of operas and operettas by Delibes, List of operas and operettas by Lecocq, List of operas and operettas by Lehar, List of operas by Adam, List of operas by Alessandro Scarlatti, List of operas by Ambroise Thomas, List of operas by Anfossi, List of operas by Auber, List of operas by Bed ich Smetana, List of operas by Boieldieu, List of operas by Bonno, List of operas by Cherubini, List of operas by d'Albert, List of operas by Donizetti, List of operas by Etienne Mehul, List of operas by Flotow, List of operas by Francesco Bianchi, List of operas by Gasparini, List of operas by Gassmann, List of operas by Gluck, List of operas by Gretry, List of operas by Guglielmi, List of operas by Handel, List of operas by Hasse, List of operas by Hindemith, List of operas by Johann Adam Hiller, List of operas by Joseph Haydn, List of operas by Krenek, List of operas by Latilla, List of operas by Marschner, List of operas by Massenet, List of operas by Mayr, List of operas by Meyerbeer, List of operas by Monsigny, List of operas by Mozart, List of operas by Myslive ek, List of operas by Pacini, List of operas by Paer, List of operas by Philidor, List of operas by Piccinni, List of operas by Ponchielli, List of operas by Porpora, List of operas by Rameau, List of operas by Richard Strauss, List of operas by Rossini, List of operas by Salieri, List of operas by Sarti, List of operas by Siegfried Wagner, List of operas by Spontini, List of operas by Telemann, List of operas by Traetta, List of operas by Vivaldi, List of operas by Weber, List of operas by Wolf-Ferrari, List of operas by Zandonai, List of operettas and operas by Millocker, List of operettas by Johann Strauss II, List of operettas by Offenbach, List of operettas by Ziehrer, List of stage and broadcast works by Sutermeister, List of works for the stage by Falla, List of works for the stage by Gomes, List of works for the stage by Hahn, List of works for the stage by Lorenzo Ferrero, List of works for the stage by Reichardt, List of works for the stage by Wagner, List of works for the stage by Weill. Excerpt: Richard Wagner's works for the stage, representing more than 50 years of creative life, comprise his thirteen completed operas and a similar number of failed or abandoned projects. His first effort, begun when he was thirteen, was a prose drama, Leubald, but thereafter all his works were conceived as some form of musical drama. It has been suggested that Wagner's wish to add incidental music to Leubald, in the manner of Beethoven's treatment of Goethe's drama Egmont, may have been the initial stimulus that directed him to musical composition. Wagner's musical education began in 1828, and a year later he was producing his earliest compositions, writing words and music, since lost, for his first opera attempt, Die Laune des Verliebten. During the subsequent decade he began several more opera projects, none of which was successful although two were completed and one was staged professionally. His first commercial success came in 1842 with Rienzi, by which time he had completed Der fliegende Hollander, in which for the first time he used the device of the leitmotiv, a characteristic that became a feature of all his later works. After accepting the post of Kapellmeister at the Dresden court of the King of Saxony in February 1843, Wagner continued to compose operas and plan various large-scale projects. His political activities forced him to flee the city in 1849, beginning a long period of exile. In Zurich, his first refuge, he wrote the essay Die Kunst und die Revolution ("Art and the Revolution"), in which he introduced the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk, or "drama-through-music." This idea was developed in the extended discourse Oper...
