Wagner: LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall (TRIH ep 631)
1850 · Resource
This episode is the second half of a live Royal Albert Hall show (4 May 2025) in which hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the life, music and legacy of Richard Wagner. Recorded with orchestral performances interleaved, the discussion covers Wagner’s Leipzig origins (1813), his theatrical ambitions, exile after the 1848–49 revolutions, and the long genesis of the Ring Cycle.
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Around 1850
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)