This program adds the achievements of Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms, Modest Mussorgsky and the rest of The Mighty Handful, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonín Dvořák, Edvard Grieg, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Strauss to the history of Romanticism. Opera—particularly the operatic “music dramas” of Wagner and the Italian verismo movement—is given special attention, and the dual influences of nationalist zeal and Freudian ideas on the music of the latter part of the 19th century are explored. A Discovery Channel Production. (26 minutes)