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The Nibelungen Trilogy at Bayreuth

1876; Volume: 17; Issue: 403 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3352372

ISSN

2397-5326

Autores

Joseph Bennett,

Tópico(s)

Historical and Archaeological Studies

Resumo

matters ?"The play's the thing," and Wagner AND SINGING CLASS CIRCULAR.cares more for one sMall accessory to his stage business than for the whole concern in front of the curtain.SEPTEMBEEt I, I876.Look into the theatre and be satlsfied ofthis.There may be a recognition of personal comfort, even of luxurious taste, in the Fursten Galerie, but elsewhere THE NIBELUN(iEN TRILOGY AT BAYREUTH behold a Spartan simplicity.It is assumed that he BY JOSEPH BENNETT who goes to the Wagner Theatre does so as a lover of art.In that capacity alone is he recognized.WHEN Rlchard Wagner first announced the carry-I will give you," says Wagner, " a good vieev of ing out of his darling enterprise at Bayreuth, men the stage I will put my orchestra out of sight, and wondered why his choice fell upon such a place; you shall not be annoyed by a gesticulating conthey have wondered ever slnce, and they are wonder-ductor-but if you expect a box in which to lounge.-ing now.The master has thlck-and-thln admlrers, if you think to have light for the examination of who credit him with the glft of lnfalllblllty, and your neighbours, or for the poring over libretti, if believe that the Ection of the Engllsh Constltutlon, you expect facilities for disturbing the house by ' The King can do no wrong," may be applled ln hls going in or out as you choose, then don t come case as an absolute fact.Yet even the6e people can to my place for none of these things will you discover for Bayreuth nothlng better than negatlve get.As you are not a prince, I cannot ask you reCOmmendations of a more or less whimsical kind to the liursten Galerie but here is a cane seat MYOWI1 experience convinces me that scarcelycould in a vast parterre rising tier above tier, so that a worse selection have been made.As a dlgnlfied everybody sees well all that he ought to see.Take and respectable little town, wlth certaln llterarAr and it or leave it."In such practical fashion is the historic associations, Bayreuth ls, no doubt, a fit whole business managed, and there has not been retreat for a man who desires to labour " far from tlle any grumbling.Some of the French and Belgian madding crowd's ignoble strife;' but to make lt the critics, it is true, wrote early letters home in a state scene of a great gatherlng, to put upon lts feeble Of wonderment, but they grew reconciled when it resources an unbearable straln, and consequently to appeared tllat a musical drama is not necessarily inflict upon visitors a host of discomforts, was a step connected with a fashionable lounge.As for the only explainable by reference to the wllfulness ln Germans, they out-Wagnered Waaner, and I belienTe whlch great men sometimes permit themselves to that they would have sat out the performances on indulge.Among Wagner's qualities ls a grim humour spikes had the master so ordained., s ra.

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