Wagner: Life and Times - 15 Strange and Surprising Discoveries About Herr Wagner

Inside Vancouver Opera

English - May 02, 2023 17:18 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MB
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Richard Wagner is known today as one of the greatest, most influential composers to have lived. But his life, anything but easy and straightforward, was as tumultuous as the age he was born into. Our top-15 list of things you didn’t know about Richard Wagner takes you behind the scenes of the life of one of Germany’s most famous exports.

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Episode Credits:

Written and presented by - Jane Potter

Voice of Richard Wagner, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Friedrich Nietzsche - David Bloom

Produced by - Ashley Daniel Foot

Audio editing by - Mack McGillivray