- Events
- SOFIA PHILHARMONIC
- BULGARIA CONCERT COMPLEX
ABOUT THE COMPLEX
- History of the Complex
- Eminent Guests
- Behind the Scenes
RICHARD WAGNER spent ten years in Switzerland, managing to escape with Liszt’s help after taking part in the Dresden uprising in May 1849, wanted by the police and sentenced in absentia to prison. The time of forced exile (1849 – 1858) was a complex and ambiguous period for the composer. Sheltered with his family in the home of Otto Wesendonck, during these years he created some of his most important literary works (“The Artwork of the Future”, “Opera and Drama”, etc.), working on his gigantic idea The Ring of the Nibelung, wrote the first operas in tetralogy –The Rhine Gold , Valkyrie, and started working on Siegfried .