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husband and wife Heinrich and Therese Vogl portrayed the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre on June 26, 1870?
in 1882 impresario Alfred Schulz-Curtius organized the first performance ever in the UK of Wagner's's epic operatic Ring Cycle?
soprano June Card appeared as Freia and Gutrune in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Michael Gielen and staged by Ruth Berghaus at the Frankfurt Opera?
for participating in the American premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal against the wishes of the composer's family, Milka Ternina was never again invited to perform at Bayreuth?
Marie Haupt, Josephine Schefsky‎ and Friederike Grün‎ each premiered a character in Richard Wagner's first Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in August 1876?
American opera singer Margaret Harshaw portrayed more Wagnerian heroines on stage at the Metropolitan Opera than anyone else in the opera's history?
Anna Deinet created the role of Brangäne in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, the first of two Wagner characters she premiered?
Luise Jaide created two roles in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen opera cycle?
Friedrich Nietzsche suggested the crest on the frontispiece of Richard Wagner's autobiography, Mein Leben, be composed of a vulture and the constellation The Plough?

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Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th century German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas. Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works.

Among his works was the Ring Cycle, which Deanna Troi used sections of to prevent captured Tezwan General Gyero Minza from sleeping or resting peacefully in an attempt to break him for information. (TNG novel: A Time to Heal)

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