Wagner, Richard. 1813-83. German Romantic opera composer/librettist. Leitmotif. Unified drama and music in long and complex operas. Tannhäuser 1845. Lohengrin 1850. Nibelung Ring 1853-76. Tristan and Isolde 1857-9. Parsifal 1882.

White Volunteer Army. 1917-18. Unsuccessfully opposed Bolsheviks.

Xanadu. (To-lun). 1256. Mongol Kublai Khan’s summer capital.