The new production by NIKOLAUS LEHNHOFF of Wagner's
Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Munich National Theatre 4: Gotterdammerung Valkyrie: Rhinemaidens
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
(Bavarian Radio recording of the first night, given in March)
5.00 Act 1
7.05* Act 2
8.25* Act 3 including at 6.50* and 8.10* Whose Funeral March?
Patrick Carnegy introduces more selections from
THOMAS MANN 'S Pro and Contra Wagner in the new translation by ALLAN BLUNDEN
Reader Stephen Thome
Within two weeks of Hitler having become Chancellor.
Thomas Mann was rash enough to give a lecture in Munich warning against the political appropriation of Wagner's art.