Wanger lived in a reactionary and unstable era, this restlessness was given a creative voice in his music and in the condition of man in the Romantic era, far from nature and isolated from communion with humanity is expressed in all his music but above all in his works. The morality of Wagner's work has always been controversial, at best believed to be the work of a clearly flawed and tortured genius and at worst suspected to be imbued with a subtle but profound racial hatred. For the purposes of this article I will present Wagner's operas at face value, without examining the theory that anti-Semitism was inherent in Wagner's operas. I will use Wagner's musical drama Parsifal as a lens through which we can frame Wagner's early operas and follow the themes of the development of his mature style in this, his final opera. Examining Wanger's developments towards music especially regarding the genesis of musical drama and how this contribution changed opera forever. His artistic reform, although not executed in great detail, accelerated the trend towards organically composed and conceived structures, as well as influencing the development of the orchestra, a new type of singer, and various aspects of theatrical practice. the first few years were full of turbulence. Opera seemed inevitable from the start with many of her older sisters becoming opera singers and her life was never short of operatic drama. However, his first all-consuming passion was not music but literature. Wagner was only 11 years old when he wrote a play, influenced by Shakespeare and Greek drama, in which 42 characters died in the first four acts, and a lucky few reappeared as ghosts in the fifth act. Four years later Wagner decided to become a comp...... middle of paper ...... the agricultural salary, (1500 thalers per year) was not enough to cover the essential expenses, but Minna managed the house in a efficient and enjoyed the status of the Kapellmeister's wife. They remained involuntarily childless (probably due to an earlier miscarriage), but overall the marriage was more stable during this period. Works Citedncyclopædia Britannica Online, s.v. “Richard Wagner,” accessed March 23, 2014, http://www .britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/633925/Richard-Wagner.Barry Millington, et al. "Wagner." The New Grove Opera Dictionary. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, accessed March 23, 2014, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/O905605pg1.Gramophone Online, sv "Richard Wagner: Biography", accessed March 23, 2014, http:/ /www.gramophone.co.uk/editorial/richard-wagner-biography