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Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities

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LEIPZIG, Germany — How quickly Richard Wagner changed his mind about “Rienzi,” his first successful opera. In his self-aggrandizing memoir, “My Life,” assembled at the request of the Bavarian King Ludwig II and dictated to his wife, Cosima, Wagner described the 1842 opening night as something like …

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