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architecture critic @thenation. currently writing about the ring cycle at wehwalt.net
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Götterdämmerung Without Flames

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By Kate Wagner
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In the late 19th century, talking about attention was all the rage. And of all that century’s artists and thinkers, Richard Wagner had perhaps the most wildly oscillating views on the fraught relationship between the production and consumption of works of art.
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“Disney, of course, would do it better”

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By Kate Wagner
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The morning before “Siegfried,” the “curator” of the Bayreuth “Ring,” Marcus Lobbes, gave an interesting question and answer session with Griffin Kaiser, a filmmaker and a member of the Wagner Society of New York. Before I report on what Lobbes said, I must make the point that if a work of art needs discursive intervention from its director in order to be properly understood, it has already failed on several levels. To continue reading, subscribe now.
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A Day of Genuine Dread

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By Kate Wagner
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Unlike, apparently, the Wagner family and the minds behind the Bayreuth Festival, I actually like and respect the “Ring” cycle as both a work of art and a way of looking at the world. It feels insane to me that the cycle needs to be defended on its own merit, being one of the most important developments in the history of both music and theater. But this is the position I’ve been put in by my first time at Bayreuth. To continue reading, subscribe now.
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