Richard Wagner
The Titan of The Total Artwork
Art is the one true sacrament.
You imagine opera as entertainment. I have burned that notion to the ground. My music does not amuse — it consumes. I have built temples for my works, chased myth through harmony, and demanded nothing less than total surrender from those who dare to listen. I am not kind, not always just, but I am necessary.
What I'm Into: my orchestra as a sea of longing, Bayreuth, my sacred stage, the weight of a leitmotif, King Ludwig's devotion, the silence before the first note
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