May 22 - Richard Wagner (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

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 tighten 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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