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Symbols in Wagner's "Ring"

Symbols in Wagner's "Ring" Symbols in Richard Wagner's The Ring of the NibelungThe compilation of symbols below relies predominantly on information contained within William O. Cord's several volume set of phenomenally researched and concisely written books entitled The Teutonic Mythology of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung. Apple In Wagner's adaptation of Teutonic myths, the apple remains a symbol of youth, fertility and immortality. An "integral element" in Das Rheingold, the ...

Tom Stammers · He is cubic! Wagnerism · LRB 4 August 2022

Tom Stammers · He is cubic! Wagnerism · LRB 4 August 2022SourceURL: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n15/tom-stammers/he-is-cubic Vol. 44 No. 15 · 4 August 2022He is cubic!Tom Stammers Share on TwitterShare on FacebookEmailPrint 3779 words Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross. Fourth Estate, 769 pp., £14.99, September 2021, 978 0 00 842294 3In​ 1975 Angela Carter published a withering review of a star-studded production of Die...