Exploring Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung
Series: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series
Publisher: Opera Journeys
Published: January 1, 2001
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781930841376
Subjects: Handbooks, manuals, etc; History; Music; Opera; Stories, plots, etc; Music / Opera
First sentence: Wagner's intent in his music-drama colossus, The Ring of the Nibelung, was to create an allegory deconstructing the moral values of his 19th century contemporary world: the Ring expressed Wagner's moral outrage at his society's political, social, and economic values.