One work a week, this week is Das Rheingold Now there are imo two ways to enjoy this work. You can watch it, or you can listen and read the staging and libretto. I actually do this with a lot of operas, it's very enjoyable and the singing in operas make it quite easy to follow a bi-lingual libretto. As you probably already know, Wagner wrote the libretto as well, and it is considered to be fine poetry of its own accord, he uses a lot of alliteration so if you like stuff like Beowulf, you would like this libretto, especially if the translation makes an effort to convey the alliteration Parallel project on /classical/ if you're interested >>>/mu/128760142If you want to use it, the channel performing-arts on the Criterion server will be there to follow or links threads or upload resources https://discord.gg/XhFGx57VKm
>>24939109I am fully on board.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgo9F3KnlWY>In the descent into Nibelheim, Wagner gives us an image of industrial capitalism that says more than a thousand pages of Karl Marx.
>>24939127Wasn't this the idea Wagner's grandson had in mind with his staging of the Jahrhundertring, envisioning the cycle set in the Industries Revolution?
>>24939136Industrial*
>>24939136Yes, but also with elements of satire and schizophrenia. In certain scenes I think it works, like with Wotan's long monologue in act 2 of Walkure, but I'm not a fan for the most part.
>>24939152It's a bit difficult to do something new with such a work since it's so holistic, but in the context of a Centennial something would have to be, especially when it's performed annually
>>24939109My favorite opera from the tetralogy.
>>24940126Mine as well
>>24940126For me it's Siegfried, the most life-affirming artwork ever created.
>>24939109What is /lit/'s opinion on Alberich being the quintessential ur-incel? Does a lack of love inevitably lead to tyranny and oppression? In this world of ours with ever-increasing inceldom, is there a future Alberich among us who's silently cursing the world and waiting for an opportunity to forge his own "ring"?
>>24941935>Does a lack of love inevitably lead to tyranny and oppression?It creates Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.
>>24943493A complete lack of love leads to Frankenstein'd monster. Alberich is more what happens to incels
>>24939109Who is the father of the Rhinemaidens? God? Who was Alberich and Mime's father? Abraham?
