Wagner Episode #1.2 (1981– ) Online
- Original Title :
- Episode #1.2
- Genre :
- TV Episode / Biography / Drama / History / Music
- Year :
- 1981–
- Directror :
- Tony Palmer
- Cast :
- Richard Burton,Cyril Cusack,Osman Ragheb
- Writer :
- Charles Wood
- Type :
- TV Episode
- Time :
- 5h
- Rating :
- 9.3/10
After refusing to join her husband for quite some time, Minna eventually agrees to move to Zürich to be reunited with Wagner. She manages to persuade Wagner to start conducting and composing again and urges him to travel to France. In Bordeaux, he meets a wealthy Scottish emigre, Mrs. Taylor, who agrees to become a patron of his, although he has a brief affair with her married daughter. Upon traveling to Paris, Wagner is ordered to leave the city at once and return to Zürich. In Zürich, Wagner meets up with his good friend Franz Liszt, while also taking on a pupil, Karl Ritter, the son of another patron, Mrs. Ritter.
| Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
 | Richard Burton | - | Richard Wagner |
 | Cyril Cusack | - | Sulzer |
 | Osman Ragheb | - | Professor Ettmüller (as Ossi Ragheb) |
| Donald Arthur | - | Franz Hagenbuch |
 | Erwin Steinhauer | - | Wilhelm Baumgartner |
 | Gemma Craven | - | Minna |
| Edit Rujz | - | Natalie |
| Mary Martlew | - | Frau Müller (as Mary Martlew-Escher) |
| Patrick Rollin | - | Eugene Laussot |
 | Peter Woodthorpe | - | French Agent |
 | Joan Plowright | - | Mrs. Taylor |
 | Gabriel Byrne | - | Karl Ritter |
| Liza Goddard | - | Jessie Laussot |
| Ekkehard Schall | - | Liszt |
 | Marthe Keller | - | Mathilde Wesendonck |