[3AngelaD]

How hilarious. “...sacrifice of love and ethics on the altars of capitalism...” As if Wagner ever muttered the term ‘capitalism’ in his entire life. The old boy must be spinning in his grave, or wherever. Imagine having to sit through the Ring cycle and be beaten down by Gore agit-prop at the same time. Sounds like something they would do to recalcitrant terrorists in Guantanamo. I feel for this opera fan.

[Publius]

We've had Wieland Wagner's Nazi "Ring" in the Thirties and Patrice Chereaux' anti-capitalist "Ring" in 1967. (Loge walks on stage in a tuxedo reading the Wall Street Journal.)

This is just another attempt to interpret the "Ring" and sounds like not much more than an update to Chereaux. Perhaps we can call it the "Gore Ring".

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Wagner was a huge anti-semite and not surprisingly Hitler's favorite composer. The overture to Rienzi in fact became the defacto theme of Hilter's Nazi party rallies. When I play Rienzi at home I can't help imagining goose stepping soldiers, convoys of tanks, long red flags hanging down from building roofs, and Hitler standing there taking it all in. Very powerful music.

[SIDENET]

How Al Gore is Ruining Opera

LOL. When I first glanced at the title, I thought it said:

"How Al Gore is Ruining Oprah"

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[Kaslin]

I thought you meant the browser

[dighton]

“The despoiling of nature through greed and ambition begins even before the stage action does, with Wotan sacrificing his own eye to drink from the Well of Wisdom and then mutilate the World Ash tree to create his spear. The destruction of our nation’s environment also began early in our history, with the violation of our rich natural resources and the pollution and disfigurement of our landscape, which will surely lead to our demise if left unchecked.”

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A FURIOUS WOTAN LASHES OUT: ‘BLAME RHINEMAIDEN GREED, NOT ME’

Cites Disproportionate Impact on Gods of Valhalla Blaze

[Condor 63]

The arts world is "ass full" of liberals to use a term my daddy used to be fond of. I'd guesstimate roughly 99%

I base that on a previous job of mine where I frequently came into contact with members of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Ballet and Opera Birmingham. I'm not talking about a few, I'm talking about practically all - from guys that paint the scenes on up.

There are a variety of reasons for it but you can just about count on it.

[steve-b]

I thought it was about how the inventor of the Internet had ruined the Opera browser.

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[N. Theknow]

Oh, Bwunhilda, you're so wovewy!"

"Yes, I know it. I can't help it."

[The Shrew]

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[martin_fierro]

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