“C’est tout-à-fait ça," said Bismarck, after seeing Offenbach’s satire of war and petty German princedoms.
47. La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (Jacques Offenbach)
46. Der Ring des Nibelungen (Richard Wagner)
A cursed magic ring; the forging of a broken sword; giants, dwarves, dragons, and Valkyries; and the downfall of the gods in a fiery cataclysm – combined with German philosophy, radical politics, and Greek tragedy. This is the big one: Wagner’s epic cycle of music dramas, drawing on Icelandic and German sagas.
45. I puritani (Vincenzo Bellini)
"The opera must make people weep, shudder, die through singing."
OPERA UNLEASHED! 