Concert

Wagner and light

About us

A theater enthusiast, considered one of the major composers of late Romanticism, Wagner wrote his own opera librettos to achieve total cohesion between text and music. He drew his inspiration from the great legends of Europe, especially Germanic ones, to develop the great themes of German Romanticism: feelings, wandering, mystery, solitude... With The Flying Dutchman, the first of his ten major operas, he found his style and invented the leitmotiv (a musical motif associated with a character). After Tannhäuser, composed two years later, he fell in love with his host's wife and wrote Tristan and Isolde. His major work, however, is undoubtedly his Tetralogy, which took him some thirty years to write and includes Siegfried, the name he gave to his son and which inspired Siegfried-Idyll, dedicated to his wife Cosima.

Did you know?

Charles Baudelaire a écrit à Wagner en février 1860 pour lui dire « Avant tout, je veux vous dire que je vous dois la plus grande jouissance musicale que j’ai jamais éprouvée. J’aurais hésité longtemps encore à témoigner par lettre mon admiration, si tous les jours mes yeux ne tombaient sur des articles indignes, ridicules, où on fait tous les efforts possibles pour diffamer votre génie ». Il aurait laissé comme post-scriptum : « Je ne vous laisse pas mon adresse, vous croiriez que j’ai quelque chose à vous demander ».

Symphonic
2024/2025

The program

RICHARD WAGNER
Le Vaisseau fantôme, ouverture
Siegfried, Murmures de la Forêt
Tannhäuser, ouverture
Siegfried Idyll
Tristan et Isolde, Prélude et mort d’Isolde


Artists


Dates & Prices

tuesday may 27, 2025 - 8pm
Auditorium - Dijon
Prices: Between €5.50 and €35
Dijon Opera
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Saturday, June 14, 2025 - 7pm
Théâtre Ledoux - Besançon
Prices: Between €4 and €22
Les 2 Scènes
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