His other operas include Tristan und Isolde and The Meistersingers of Nuremberg.
His first opera to be staged was The Ban on Love, though the first one he wrote, The Fairies, was not performed until after his death. While writing Rienzi, he was befriended by Giacomo Meyerbeer, though he later attacked Meyerbeer in his treatise Jewishness in Music. His other operas include Tristan und Isolde and The Meistersingers of Nuremberg. For 10 points, name this German opera composer of Lohengrin and Tannhauser.
His first opera to be staged was The Ban on Love, though the first one he wrote, The Fairies, was not performed until after his death.
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