Hardly the first person to be so. It's a remarkable work. I was watching a fuller version last night -- the sort that includes the words -- in order to explain some of the mythology to a younger relative.
One of the things that struck me about this particular version is that there is a real degree of "cultural appropriation" going on with the orchestra, here. I wonder what Wagner would have made of a Jewish-American maestro directing a Japanese orchestra in a performance of the Ring in Tokyo.
Interesting that all the trumpets are non-piston valve--and one player has obviously refused to polish his horn. Great music written by an obnoxious jerk.
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You are fascinated by this opera, aren't you?
Hardly the first person to be so. It's a remarkable work. I was watching a fuller version last night -- the sort that includes the words -- in order to explain some of the mythology to a younger relative.
One of the things that struck me about this particular version is that there is a real degree of "cultural appropriation" going on with the orchestra, here. I wonder what Wagner would have made of a Jewish-American maestro directing a Japanese orchestra in a performance of the Ring in Tokyo.
Interesting that all the trumpets are non-piston valve--and one player has obviously refused to polish his horn. Great music written by an obnoxious jerk.
Wagner was probably doing automatic writing on this one.
Norse theology is very close to old Hebrew Judaism and Sumerian legends. A result of the Tower of Babel splintering human languages.
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