Two weeks in the journey to stage Gotterdammerung: finding the right ending for the cycle.(Forging the Ring)

From: Opera Canada | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: Gooding, Wayne | Copyright information

IT TOOK WAGNER JUST OVER 25 YEARS TO CONCEIVE, compose and stage Der Ring des Nibelungen, though the pace quickened frenetically over the last five. During this time, he finished the music for Siegfried, composed Gotterdammerung, embarked on his second marriage (to Cosima von Bulow), moved his household to the small Franconian town of Bayreuth, built a thoroughly modern opera house there to mount the Ring, assembled a creative team to stage and perform it, and worked tirelessly--alb...

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