The Wagner Society of Washington, DC
Presents
Paul Heise

"The Ring as a Whole"

Thursday, April 27, 2000 --- 7:45 p.m.

George Washington University
Funger Hall
Room 103
2201 G Street, NW
Washington, DC

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Wagner scholar, lecturer, and theorist, Paul Heise, believes that Wagner's
"Ring" is conceptually unified from beginning to end and that Wagner's
other repertory operas are all related to "The Ring" and each other in a
surprisingly systematic way.  Paul Heise wil show in his lecture that "The
Ring" is Wagner's allegory for the evolution of civilization itself, that
its main subject is the development of religion (the gods), of art (the
love of Volsung hero and heroine Siegfried and Sieglinde), and the ventual
destruction of these spiritual and humanist impulses by the objective,
scientific spirit (Alberich and Hagen).

Janice Rosen