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.

02

Why

I wanted a site about Wagner because the subject has not let go of me for years. But I did not want another site with plot summaries. So I set myself tasks: bring every performance worldwide for this year and next into one calendar. Collect every place connected to him and replace the pictures with my own as I visit them. And on desktop, build not a landing page but a staging that feels like theatre when you scroll.

03

Insight

The site runs on Next.js and Vercel, the data lives in Supabase. The map is Google Maps through the API, with custom styling for the light and the dark view so the places stay readable instead of drowning in default colours. For the open data on places, performances and societies, Claude and GPT help with gathering and checking. Like every one of my sites it has an llms.txt and sits in Search Console.

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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

Performance calendar
Performances worldwide for this year and next, pulled together from the houses' own schedules, so you can see where the Ring is on right now.
Places, with my own photos
Every place connected to Wagner: houses, museums, routes. Wherever I have been myself, I replace the picture with my own; the directory grows with my travels.
Societies
Wagner societies worldwide, with location and link.
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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wagnerwelten.de

Here I am in the right place. I confess it freely: what drove me from the country to Nuremberg was love of art alone.

Richard Wagner