Name: Gods and Heroes - Wagner's Most Popular Melodies
Start: 2024-06-25
End: 2024-06-25
Location: Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

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Müpa Budapest

Wagner in Budapest

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Adam Fischer

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Hungarian National Philharmonic

Gods and Heroes - Wagner's Most Popular Melodies

Budapest

Ungern

Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Gods and Heroes - Wagner's Most Popular Melodies: Der fliegende Holländer Wagner, Richard (+6 More)

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Den flygande Holländaren

Parsifal

Tannhäuser

Tristan und Isolde

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Ragnarök

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Pallavi Pawar

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It is always a thrill to reflect on the fact that, even though the vast majority of Richard Wagner's oeuvre consists of his operas and music dramas, and the singers who perform in them on the world's top stages are exceptional artists, the most popular parts of these works, which can also be played independently, are the orchestral sequences. It is a colourful bouquet of these that the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, playing under the baton of Budapest Wagner Days artistic director Ádám Fischer, will present for the Müpa Budapest audience.

While it is indeed perplexing that most of Wagner's greatest hits are orchestral segments, it is also at the same time understandable, since Wagner, the reformer of opera as an art form, broke with the practice of composing so-called ‘closed numbers' - arias - thus greatly complicating the task of extracting vocal excerpts from his works. Not only are orchestral numbers more suitable for playing in a concert hall, they have catchy melodies too. What music lover would have trouble whistling...

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Gods and Heroes - Wagner's Most Popular Melodies by Wagner, Richard, tis 25 jun 2024, Från (2024/2024), Dirigent Adam Fischer, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest, Ungern

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