Walther performs the "Prize Song" to gain entry in to the title guild in this composer's The (*) Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and this man frequently used the leitmotif.
In this composer's first opera, Arindal gains immortality with Ada. In addition to The Fairies, this man wrote an opera in which the title character rejects the Venusberg and the Pope's staff sprouts leaves; that opera is Tannhauser. Walther performs the "Prize Song" to gain entry in to the title guild in this composer's The (*) Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and this man frequently used the leitmotif. In one of his operas, the Liebestod aria is sung by Isolde over Tristan's dead body, and in another, Brünnhilde appears with the title group after the "Ride of the Valkyries." For 10 points, The Rheingold is the first opera in what German composer's Ring Cycle?
In this composer's first opera, Arindal gains immortality with Ada.
Richard Wagner