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 | | Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born on May 22, 1813 to the family of Friederich and Johanna Wagner. |
 | | After her remarriage, Johanna moved with her son and husband to Dresden, where Wagner was brought up as part of a theatrical family, four of his elder sisters becoming actors. |
 | | Because of Wagner's later affairs, she is often pictured as a betrayed wife, but in fact as early as May 1837 she had run off for a while with another man. Wagner, also beset with financial problems, turned to Bulwer Lytton's Rienzi, Last of the Tribunes, which he adapted to a libretto. |
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