Wagner's Ring Leitmotifs: Dedication

Dedication

This site is dedicated to Sasha, a dog, who inspired more love and passion in her guardian than I could ever hope to have in Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, and that is saying a lot. Sasha died just days before I started to develop this site, but she will live on in her guardian's heart forever, just as my own dogs' spirits will live with me forever.

Credits, Sources, Bibilography, Etc.

This website was prepared for my attendance at Feb 11, 2012, performance of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Gotterdammerung. To prepare for this, the following items were studied, watched, consulted, etc.

Attended Metropolitan Opera's new productions of Das Rheingold (9/10), Walkure (3/11), and Siegfried (10/11

Listened numerous times to 1965 London Records (Decca) recording of Gotterdammerung, once following the Libretto bu German and English.

Watched the Metropolitan Opera’s DVD production (od production) of Gotterdammerung.

DC Comics special four copy issue of Ring of the Niebelungen.

Metropolitan Opera’s, The Ring, (printed version)

Robert Donnington, Wagner’s ‘Ring’ and its Symbols, Faber and Faber, London, 1963.

Deryck Cooke, I Saw The World End, Clarendon Paperbacks, Oxforn University Press, London 1979.

Ring Disc, An Interactive Guide to Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

And Introduction to Dr Ring Des Nibelungen, Decca, The Classic Sound, Deryck Cooke, Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir George Solti.

The Leitmotifs of Wagner’s Ring – by Peter Billam, www.pjb.com.au

Leitmotifs in Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction, by Kristian Evensen, see http://www.trell.org/wagner/motifs.html#leitmotifs

Etc.