Luis Godoy Alvarez
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Wagner Welten

A staged digital journey through Richard Wagner's thirteen completed stage works, plus researched directories of the places, performances and societies worldwide. Scrolling sets the pace.

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The overture: Bayreuth after nightfall.wagnerwelten.de
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How it is staged

  1. I

    Overture

    The opening sets the rule of the site: text, image, space and sound follow one principle, and every gesture waits for the reader's rhythm.

  2. II

    Richard Wagner

    Five stations from Leipzig 1813 through the Dresden exile, Munich 1864 and Bayreuth 1876 to Venice 1883. Not a monument, but the ruptures in between.

  3. III

    The complete stage works

    All thirteen, from Die Feen in 1833 to Parsifal in 1882. The early works stand alongside the familiar Bayreuth canon as equals, not as a footnote.

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Why

[WARUM · LUIS] ≈ 420 characters

Sample text at the intended length. Three or four sentences on how Wagner Welten came about: what was missing for you, what you first did by hand, and when it became clear this would turn into something. Concrete, in your own words, no marketing voice.

Why you built Wagner Welten. Nothing public on the site states a motive, so nothing is written here.

  • How did you end up with Wagner, and why a whole website?
  • Why all thirteen works instead of only the familiar ten?
  • What did you want to show that a book or Wikipedia cannot?
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Insight

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  • How did you build the scroll staging without it overwhelming the text?
  • How does the page stay readable with JavaScript and sound off?
  • Where does the data on places, performances and societies come from?
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Screens

Screenshot of The catalogue: all thirteen stage works, from Die Feen in 1833 to Parsifal in 1882.
The catalogue: all thirteen stage works, from Die Feen in 1833 to Parsifal in 1882.wagnerwelten.de
Screenshot of A single opera world, Parsifal here.
A single opera world, Parsifal here.wagnerwelten.de
Screenshot of The places directory: museums, houses and routes.
The places directory: museums, houses and routes.wagnerwelten.de
Screenshot of Performances on Europe's stages.
Performances on Europe's stages.wagnerwelten.de
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What else belongs to it

Directories
Alongside the journey sit researched directories: places where Wagner lived and worked, theatres and performances, and Wagner societies worldwide.
Sound
The site carries a sound layer, and it can be switched off in the header. The control sits where you look for it, not inside a menu.
Bilingual
German and English, both complete, not a machine mirror.

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