Wagner's Ring: Turning the Sky Round
by M. Owen Lee
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Author: M. Owen LeeEdition: Paperback
Published: 2004-08-01
ISBN: 0879101865
Number of pages: 122
Publisher: Limelight Editions
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Book Review: A good introduction to Wagner's Ring
Summary: 5 Stars
Father Owen Lee provides a concise guide to what is certainly the longest and perhaps most spectacular work of performing arts produced in the western world. There can be no analysis of Wagner's 'Ring of the Nibelung' which can fully comprehend every aspect of the work. Each of us must see it from our own viewpoint - a viewpoint which must be coloured by our individual upbringing, culture and life experience. And Owen Lee is no different. He guides us through the Ring from a perspective of intuitive myth - the Ring is not the social and political metaphor that Wagner first envisaged in 1848. It is now something much more - an explanation of "pyschological and metaphysical reality. It was asking: who am I? where did I come from? what is the meaning of life? what is the world?"
Lee comes to the Ring in an easy-to-read way but doesn't sacrifice concepts and quality by being simplistic. The text is derived from his intermission talks that formed part of radio broadcasts of the Ring from the Metropolitan Opera. The actual text is just under 100 pages but he provides a short bibliography and discography in which he freely points up his own favourites and preferences.
As a short but thoughtful introduction to the Ring you won't find much better. But listen to the operas in conjunction with your reading. In that way the real merits of this little book shine through.
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