A Night at the Opera
Oct. 3rd, 2012 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormouse1953Alberich has renounced love and stolen the gold from the Rhinemaidens and forged the Ring. Wotan has tricked him out of it and given the gold to the giants to pay for Valhalla and Erda has persuaded Wotan to give the giants the Ring too, now cursed by Alberich. Then Donner waves his hammer to clear the mists circling Valhalla, the thunder cracks and the rainbow appears and the gods enter into Valhalla and you realise that the Ring cycle really is The Greatest Work of Art Ever Created!!!
And when the curtain comes down you realise you have been sitting in your seat for nearly three hours and this is merely the curtain raiser. There are three more operas to come, all longer than this (but thankfully none with an act longer than what you have just experienced).
And when the curtain comes down you realise you have been sitting in your seat for nearly three hours and this is merely the curtain raiser. There are three more operas to come, all longer than this (but thankfully none with an act longer than what you have just experienced).
