During last year and indeed, this year, new images of Wagner have been found, or claimed to have been found. In the debate about the authenticity of some, other documented images have been brought out in comparison. Especially that by Julius Ernst Benedikt Kietz in 1840 and found below. However, as far as we are aware the earliest likeness of Wagner was taken when he was only 22. That is the silhouette found above (alas, a reproduction. Our scanners have all decided not to work), by an unknown artist, presented to Wagner as a gift by his future wife Minna Planer in 1835
Der Wald
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Dame Ethel Smyth’s one act opera Der Wald is certainly of some historical
interest. It was the first opera by a woman given at the Metropolitan
Opera. T...
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