What is it about power? It fascinates, it terrifies. Tyrants cling to it. Inevitably they fall, and often their world collapses around them. That is the stuff of theater and of opera. In my presentation I consider Wotan's loss of power and stirring farewell to Brünnhilde in Die Walküre. And I will ask, was this… Continue reading Wotan and Prospero – The Price of Power