tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post7320522175697046538..comments2024-03-14T09:31:24.792-04:00Comments on TORONTO CATHOLIC WITNESS: Wagner and the Ring: is it Icelandic or did it succumb to German 19th century Philosophy?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-2677382111860709172013-08-10T17:09:50.361-04:002013-08-10T17:09:50.361-04:00Wagner seems to have been struggling with the infl...Wagner seems to have been struggling with the influence of Schopenhauer....<br />Baronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06265555388172261643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-27298736316684622832013-08-09T18:25:27.584-04:002013-08-09T18:25:27.584-04:00The Ring Cycle is arguably the best dramatization ...The Ring Cycle is arguably the best dramatization of the Sigurd story. William Morris who translated the Volsungasaga did not think so. <br /><i>I look upon it as nothing short of desecration to bring such a tremendous and world-wide subject under the gaslights of an opera: the most rococo and degraded of all forms of art – the idea of a sandy-haired German tenor tweedledeeing over the Freyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01706221683777453812noreply@blogger.com