And...Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
Many years ago the conductor Lorin Maazel made an orchestral arrangement of the best bits of "The Ring" - no singing! Still over one hour.I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.
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