Last scene of act 3 of Rienzi at the Théâtre Lyrique, 1869
Librettist
Richard Wagner
Language
German
Based on
Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel
Premiere
20 October 1842 (1842-10-20)
Königliches Hoftheater Dresden
Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the last of the tribunes; WWV 49) is an 1842 opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835). The title is commonly shortened to Rienzi. Written between July 1838 and November 1840, it was first performed at the Königliches Hoftheater Dresden, on 20 October 1842, and was the composer's first success.
The opera is set in Rome and is based on the life of Cola di Rienzo (1313–1354), a late medieval Italian populist figure who succeeds in outwitting and then defeating the nobles and their followers and in raising the power of the people. Magnanimous at first, he is forced by events to crush the nobles' rebellion against the people's power, but popular opinion changes and even the Church, which had urged him to assert himself, turns against him. In the end the populace burns the Capitol, in which Rienzi and a few adherents have made a last stand.
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stay he completed his third and fourth operas Rienzi and Der fliegende Holländer. Wagner had completed Rienzi in 1840. With the strong support of Giacomo...
with coining the term "Micronesia" in 1832, but in fact, Louis Domeny de Rienzi [fr] used this term a year earlier. Micronesia is a region in Oceania that...
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British Empire Citizens' and Workers' Home Rule Party, and Adrian Cola Rienzi, who led the Trinidad Citizens League (TCL), Oilfields Workers' Trade Union...
opera Rienzi, in Dresden. The two met in Berlin at the instigation of Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, and Wagner later sent Liszt the scores of Rienzi and...
über Motive aus Rienzi pf 1859 Piano, arr. based on the battle-hymn "Santo spitiro cavaliere" (Act III, No. 10) from the opera Rienzi, WWV.49 by Richard...
1970) and Golu Hadawatha (Cold Heart, 1968). Sri Lankan-Canadian poet Rienzi Crusz, is the subject of a documentary on his life in Sri Lanka. His work...
The so-called Casa di Rienzi still in its urban context before the opening of the Via del Mare in a watercolour by Ettore Roesler Franz (about 1880)...
Friedrich (1974). Knierem, Michael (ed.). Cola di Rienzi: ein unbekannter dramatischer Entwurf [Cola di Rienzi: an unknown dramatic sketch]. Schriften aus dem...
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