Best 1882
Richard Wagner’s Parsifal, completed in 1882, is a German opera exploring themes of spiritual rebirth and atonement. It represents Wagner's last significant stage work and draws heavily on Christian symbolism, specifically the Arthurian legend. The opera examines concepts of guilt, suffering, and ul...
The Snow Maiden is a four-act opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, based on Alexander Ostrovsky's play and premiered in 1882. The story follows the daughter of Spring and Frost, who longs to experience human love among the people of the mythical kingdom of the Berendeys, linking her fate to the seasona...
Lysander Spooner's 1882 treatise defines natural law as an objective science of justice and limits legitimate government to protecting individual rights.
An 1882 French operetta by Lecocq, distinguished by its exotic Russian setting and its successful run at the Théâtre de la Renaissance.
Early one-act vaudeville by Georges Feydeau (1882), a brief domestic farce in which a conjugal quarrel escalates into absurd complications centered on a ground-floor window.
