Richard Wagner: Difference between revisions

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{{examples|Works by Richard Wagner with their own trope pages include:}}

* ''[[The Ring of the Nibelung|Der Ring Des Nibelungen]]''

* ''[[Tannhaeuser|Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg]]''

* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: Beckmesser's serenade in ''Meistersinger'' is faulted for this by „''Merker Hans Sachs''‟, as with „''die MIR wohl GEfall'n THUT''."

* [[At the Opera Tonight]]: Wagner's operas are among the favorites for characters to attend, as in the 1931 ''[[Dracula]]'' film (''Meistersinger'') or in Nicholas Meyers' [[Sherlock Holmes]] novel, ''The Seven Per Cent Solution'' (''Siegfried'').

* [[Banned in China]]: Owing to the associations with Nazi Germany and Wagner's notorious anti-Semitism, Wagner's music is more or less ''[[Yiddish as a Second Language|farbotn]]'' in Israel.

** This is starting to change; his music has been performed in Israel, to a mixed reception. Half the crowd loved it, the other half hated it.

* [[Serial Escalation]]: Where Wagner took opera—I mean, ''Bühnenfestspiel''.

* [[Space Jews]]: Klingsor from ''Parsifal'' is generally considered to be one of these. Some would also include the Nibelungs, specifically from Mime, from the Ring, though there's less evidence of that.

* [[Standard Snippet]]: Besides the obvious ''Lohengrin'' wedding and ''Walküre'' bombing examples, storms at sea have very commonly invoked the Overture to ''Der fliegende Holländer''.

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Senta and The Dutchman die (but go to Heaven); Elisabeth and Heinrich die (and probably go to Heaven); Elsa and Lohengrin are parted forever (until they meet in heaven?); Tristan is mortally wounded, Isolde falls dead onto his body (Liebestod). Falling in love is generally not a good idea in a Wagner opera.

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{{examples|Notable Works which cite Wagner or his works:}}

== Animated Film ==

* One of the planned sequences for [[Walt Disney]]'s ''[[Fantasia]]'' was the "[[Ride of the Valkyries]]."

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[The Legend of Koizumi]]'' features a [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|reincarnated cyborg Wagner]] as one of [[Those Wacky Nazis]] whom our heroes battle, complete with [[Calling Your Attacks|attacks]] based on his operas.

* The evil character "Dietrich von Lohengrin" in the anime and manga of ''[[Trinity Blood]]'' presumably derives his surname from Wagner's operatic hero.

 

== Film ==

* In [[Woody Allen]]'s film ''[[Manhattan Murder Mystery]]'', his character says: "I can't listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland."

** Wagner is also mentioned briefly in ''[[Annie Hall]]'', when Alvy is worried that the record store owner was making an anti-Semitic joke by mentioning that he was having a sale on Wagner.

* In ''[[One, Two, Three]]'', the German doctor is a big fan of him and sadly missed the 3rd act of ''Die Walküre / The Valkyrie''.

 

== Literature ==

* In Nicholas Meyer's [[Sherlock Holmes]] [[Pastiche]] ''The Seven Per Cent Solution'', Holmes (who adores Wagner), Dr. Watson, and Sigmund Freud all attend a performance of ''Siegfried''; Watson and Freud fall asleep.

* [[C. S. Lewis]] was a great Wagner fan. It annoyed him greatly that [[Adolf Hitler]] was too.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* On ''[[Kir Royal]]'', the protagonists use the aliases "Siegfried" and "Wieland", the names of Richard's son and grandson (while posing as the nephews of a Jewish composer, of all things).

* ''[[Rumpole of the Bailey]]'' makes Claude Erskine-Brown's love of Wagner something of a [[Running Gag]] (and [[Flanderization]], as he started out being just a general opera buff). He even names his kids Tristan and Isolde.

 

== Music ==

* Jim Steinman coined the term "Wagnerian rock" to describe the music he wrote (for an example, listen to any track from the first two ''[[Meat Loaf|Bat Out of Hell]]'' albums).

* [[Grave Digger]]'s ''Rheingold'' a [[Concept Album]] which is based on ''The Ring of the Nibelung''.

 

== Theater ==

* The great Anna Russell hilariously parodied Wagnerian operas in routines like "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve7wH-k8LgQ The Ring of the Nibelungs: An Analysis]" [''sic''] and the [[Poirot Speak]]-based "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPhFBE4UGvA Schreechenrauf]."

 

== Video Games ==

* In the ''[[Sam and Max]]'' episode ''The Tomb of Sammun-Mak'', we know that [[Little Miss Badass|little]] [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|Amelia Earhart]] listens to "The Ride of the Valkyries" as a lullaby.

* The [[Action RPG]] ''[[Odin Sphere]]'' is riddled through with Wagnerian references.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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