This marathon 19th century work seems impenetrable - but it also has a lot in common with modern TV epics
as “a terrifying parable for the end of our world”; it is a 16-hour marathon that “defies neat theoretical analysis”. It is, perhaps, the most complex opera in the musical canon.
This is partly because of its scale – but also because of its substance. And these are all assessments of which Wagner would have been proud. Wagner is a controversial figure in musicology: he was a vicious anti-Semite and proponent of the Germanism that was bubbling throughout the 19century. Some argue that his politics came through in his work in anti-Semitic tropes; he also heavily relied on Germanic myths.
Like many of Wagner’s works, it centres on mythology: Gods, spirits and magical creatures from Germanic and Scandinavian folklore . The ring at the centre of the drama would – similarly to the one inIllustration of Brunnhilde and Wotan from The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie, 1910 is about Wotan, king of the Norse gods, and his obtaining of the ring – which he does by tricking the Rhinemaidens. They’re not very happy about this, so they put a curse on it.
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