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Performance // Georg Nussbaumer interprets Wagner’s The Ring Cycle
Article by Henry Andersen – in Berlin; Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013.
A famous story about Richard Wagner tells of the premier performance of his opera Der Ring des Niblungen (sometimes called The Ring Cycle, completed 1883). As the story goes, after one of the arias an old man in the theatre, particularly moved by the singer’s performance began to clap…[read on…]