[miss marmelstein]

I’ve read that theory and think it has some merit. But then I like Wagner operas which certainly show the pagan elements of Germany.

[Publius]

At the end of the Met's 1990 production of the "Ring," the last image, as the world collapses in Götterdämmerung, is the sun. But in the light is just the faintest outline of a cross.

The production designer caught the subtext of Wagner's last scene.

[Original Lurker]

I do, too.
However, when I hear Beethoven’s “ode an die freude” I want to violently disgorge the contents of my stomach.

Nauseating!