Are you sure that Mr. Reizen "turned off his critical and reasoning
apparatus" to sing Wotan's farewell? Although worshipping pagan gods
is clearly outside any form of the Jewish religion there is nothing
anti-semitic in "Die Walkure," or, for that matter, in any other part of
the Ring cycle. (Note that I do not consider sketch notes to be part of
the finished product.)

This seems to be another occasion to recall some of the prominent Jewish
Wagner conductors of past and present: Hermann Levi, Bruno Walter, Georg
Solti, James Levine, and Daniel Barenboim to name a few.

Aaron J. Rabushka
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