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]]''

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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 ==

* ''[[Valkyrie]]'': Tom Cruise makes the [[Anvilicious|obvious]] invocation.

* 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 ==

* 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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[[Category:Opera]]

[[Category:Composers]]

[[Category:Richard Wagner]]

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