Exploring The Female Characters In Wagner’s Operas From The Perspective Of Feminism

Wilhelm Richard Wagner is one of the transcendent figures in the opera history. In some sense, he ever led significant revolutions in opera and even in music theory with his incredibly talent and complicated thoughts in politics and religion. And that is the reason why he was the most controversial figure in the western music history. The renowned representative work of Wagner is his Der Ring Des Nibelungen made from 1848. It is a magnificent work consisting four relative operas, which has huge formation, complicated plots, profound thoughts and abundant symbols. Also, he constructs it with his creative leitmotifs to make it thrilling and outstanding in large numbers of opera works. It is worth noting that the androgyny trait of the heroine Brunhilde breaks the traditional image of woman, inspiring us to think about woman in a new way. Based on all of this, the paper set to study. It will explore the feminine figure Brunhilde with feminism point of view, analyzing the work in a different way.