Are both Der Freischütz and Der Barbier von Bagdad operas?
Der Barbier von Bagdad Der Barbier von Bagdad ("The Barber of Baghdad") is a comic opera in two acts by Peter Cornelius to a German libretto by the composer, based on "The Tale of the Tailor" and "The Barber’s Stories of his Six Brothers" in "One Thousand and One Nights". The first of three operas by Cornelius, the piece was first performed at the Hoftheater in Weimar on 15 December 1858.
Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ] ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the "Gesamtkunstwerk" ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen" ("The Ring of the Nibelung").