[lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope

[Matthias Wasser]

On 1/15/09, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sure you can read Wagner's politics off the surface of the Ring cycle. Not
> so in hearing much the music, you have to see it performed, but this was
> Gesamtkunst, meant to be seen as well as heard. It's especially notable in
> Siegfried and in the non-Ring work Parsifal (a truely readful work). There's
> argument about whether it's obvious in the Meistersinger.
>
I've not seen any of it, but I got the impression from Freddie N. that
Wagner - at least at times - celebrates a sort of revolutionary
humanism. Is that right?