sexta-feira, 3 de junho de 2011

Roger Scruton sobre Wagner III

Mais um artigo de Scruton sobre Wagner

Paul Heise’s Interpretation of Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

Roger Scruton.

http://www.wagnerheim.com/show/introduction-roger-scruton

Eis um excerto do texto de Scruton:
(...)«No composer has ever been more of a philosopher than Richard Wagner, and in none of his works is Wagner more philosophical than in the The Ring of the Nibelung. In this work – surely the greatest drama composed in modern times – Wagner attempts to convey a picture of the human condition that will identify the origins of good and evil, the place of man in the cosmos, and the secret source of human freedom.» (...)

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