Die Feen
The genre reached its apogee in the early works of Richard Wagner, specifically "Die Feen", "Das Liebesverbot", "The Flying Dutchman" and "Tannhäuser", although these differed from their predecessors in not using spoken dialogue. His later operas developed the reminiscence motif into the more protean Leitmotif and gradually abandoned many of the themes of "romantische Oper", while still largely focused on myths, legends and nature.