Previous posts for December 1st are here: Bette Midler (2019), Agathe Backer-Grøndahl (2020), Bette Midler (2021), Giuseppe Sarti (2022), and Bette Midler; Franz Xaver Richter (2023)
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Ernest Reyer (1 December 1823 – 15 January 1909) was a French opera composer and music critic.
No Ho-jo-to-ho!
Sigurd is based on the Scandinavian legends of the Edda Völsunga saga (Nibelungenlied), the same source which Richard Wagner drew upon for the libretto for his Ring cycle. -- Wikipedia
The musical world doesn’t care
About Sigurd by Ernest Reyer,
An opera whose source
Is the myths of the Norse,
But it isn’t Bayreuthian fare.
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