Posted January 15, 2013

Posted January 15, 2013

If there had been TV back in 1850, perhaps we would have seen as split screen opera drama, one side Franz Liszt conducting Lohengrin in Weimar and on the other side Richard Wagner in exile, conducting an imaginary orchestra in Lucerne.

This scenario is laid out as Die Zeit continues its articles on the Richard Wagner Jubilee Year. In this article Wagner’s vices are considered, his womanizing, his manipulation of people, his need for luxury and his egotism.

But he was, after all, Richard Wagner, perhaps the greatest artist who has ever lived – and Wagner himself knew this.

http://www.zeit.de/2013/02/Richard-Wagner-Leben

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