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...WAGNER: DIE WALKURE (DG). With Hildegard Behrens, James Morris and James Levine, the Met's new Ring cycle is off to a rousing start...
...example, according to Mitchell, nineteenth century composer Richard Wagner's opera "The Ring Cycle" is an artistic effort which owes some of its inspiration to Icelandic sagas, such as Beowulf. "There are aspects of that tale that go back at least a millenium," says Mitchell...
...peered anxiously through an open escape hatch as their aircraft corkscrewed down to the airstrip, on the lookout for rebel rockets. But even such daring trips cannot begin to save the town from starvation. "This amount of food will feed only a fraction of those in need," said Gordon Wagner, the U.S. representative of OXFAM in Juba. He had not eaten in four days. Children scream in agony at the 50 feeding centers in the town. "I fed 900 children," said Daniel Bulla, a Dinka, the emaciated supervisor. "Tomorrow thousands will come, and we will have nothing to give them...
...Matthis Wagner...
...underground shelter; Brunnhilde's rock, a barren stretch of moonscape, glowing radioactively. The Rhinemaidens disport themselves among the twisted remnants of what appears to be a power plant (shades of Chereau). It is a gloomy, godforsaken land that well suits the Schopenhauerian concept of pessimism with which Wagner suffused his text...