Richard Wagner - The Ring without Words

"In the orchestra – that is where the essence lies, that is the text beneath the text, that is the universal subconscious that connects the Wagnerian characters to one another and links them to the proto-ego of the legend" – this is how conductor Lorin Maazel quotes director Wieland Wagner, with whom he had a long-standing collaboration and whose theory of the Wagner orchestra as the "source" of his musical theater ultimately inspired him to his ...