Opera heard in his earlier operas such as "Der fliegende Holländer", "Tannhäuser" and "Lohengrin"; and he was prepared to violate accepted musical conventions, such as tonality, in his quest for greater expressivity. In his mature music dramas, "Tristan und Isolde", "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", "Der Ring des Nibelungen" and "Parsifal", he abolished the distinction between aria and recitative in favour of a seamless flow of "endless melody". Wagner also brought a new philosophical dimension to opera in his works, which were usually based on stories from Germanic or Arthurian legend. Finally, Wagner built his own opera house at Bayreuth with part
Good Friday gives other examples with the sense "of a day or season observed as holy by the church" as an archaic sense of "good" ("good", adj. 8c) as in "good tide" meaning "Christmas" or "Shrove Tuesday", and "Good Wednesday" meaning the Wednesday in Holy Week. In German-speaking countries, Good Friday is generally referred to as "Karfreitag" ("Kar" from Old High German "kara"‚ "bewail", "grieve"‚ "mourn", Freitag for "Friday"): Mourning Friday. The "Kar" prefix is a cognate of the English word "care" in the sense of cares and woes; it meant mourning. The day is also known as "Stiller Freitag" ("Silent Friday")