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Wagner's fifteen-hour four-part national epic built around desire, the ring, gods, and world destruction.
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Ring Cycle
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Music is the privileged access to will, inspiring Wagner's total art and Ring Cycle as a national form for unifying German desire.
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The Ring plot is interpreted as desire causing contracts, transgression, treachery, sacrifice, destruction, and possible renewal.
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"Does that make sense? So he says, Life has no intrinsic worth but is kept in motion merely by desire and illusion. And as..."
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"And why is this important? Because it inspires Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner is the most famous musician in Germany. He's really the national poet..."
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"But I'll put it in very simple terms. It's 15 hours, four parts. So there are people called the Rhine Maidens. These are river..."
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"And Wotan and the gods want to create a palace for themselves called Valhalla. And they hire a giant to build this Valhalla. And..."
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"That's his great idea. So he gives birth to twins, Siglinde and Sigmund. They're separated at birth, they're twins, and then they run into..."
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"sees the love between Siglinde and Sigmund, and she wants to save Sigmund and defy Wotan's orders. Wotan hears about this and punishes Bohendi..."
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"...new beginning, okay? So that's the national epic of Germany, the Ring Cycle. And again, this is put on every year at Beirut. It's..."
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