Limericks re-telling the plots of the Ring operas may be found here: Ring (2019). Limericks re-telling the plots of the canonical non-Ring opera may be found here: non-Ring (2020). Additional limericks on Wagner are here: Wagner (2021). A post on Morrissey is here.
Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) revolutionized opera in the last half of the nineteenth century.
Patience Is a Virtue
The timid may think that it’s wrong
When an opera is five hours long,
But sanctioning cuts
Would be totally nuts,
So tightened your belt and be strong.
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The Old Wooden House
The public that comes to engage
With Bayreuth’s Wagnerian stage
Is glad to spend hours
Entranced by the powers
Of their long-winded musical Sage.
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Story Time
Teutonic foundational glories,
For Wagner, were infinite quarries
Of tales with potential
To be consequential
When told as Gesamtkunstwerk stories.
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