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NEW YORKNEW YORK — One of his most popular works during the composer’s lifetime, Wagner’s early opera “Rienzi” still has the power to ignite strong feelings today. The epic-length account of a ...

Rienzi: der Letzte der Tribunen (the last of the Tribunes) is early Wagner, and composed for the Dresden Court Theatre in 1842. It has taken 171 years for this sprawling, lumpish curiosity piece to ...

If there were ever a moment for a new opera company to make a big splash, it’s opening night. And so Odyssey Opera, one of the newest additions to the unstable yet inventive ecosphere that is Boston’s ...

Christiane Libor/Claudia Mahnke/Peter Bronder/Frankfurter Opern-und Museumsorchester/Sebastian Weigle Rienzi, Wagner's third opera, is his problem piece for many. A huge success at its 1842 premiere, ...

Odyssey Opera artistic director Gil Rose, left, and tenor Kristian Benedikt rehearse "Rienzi." (Odyssey Opera, via Facebook) BOSTON — A new opera company debuts in Boston this Sunday with a single ...

Rienzi is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name. Written between July 1838 and November 1840, it ...

BERLINBERLIN — Wagner’s early opera “Rienzi” has a history of arousing strong emotions. The composer himself came to despise it and banned it from performance at his Bayreuth shrine. But it was the ...

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