tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17709835.post2235576829814228673..comments2024-01-17T00:20:07.761-08:00Comments on Not For Fun Only: Dresden BurntAxel Feldheimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517904558156089265noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17709835.post-59254131217680614852010-04-17T22:11:45.330-07:002010-04-17T22:11:45.330-07:00That would indeed be a good connection between the...That would indeed be a good connection between the score & the city. I too recall that Wagner was in Dresden in the 1840s & that his support of the Dresden uprising led to his exile. The obvious conceit of the Picton's work is a conflation of the fire bombing of Dresden & the conflagration at the end of the Ring. A similar piece in the show is a map of San Francisco, constructed from advertisements for the 1936 movie <i>San Francisco</i> about the 1906 earthquake & fire.Axel Feldheimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12517904558156089265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17709835.post-38275873832366184812010-04-17T18:11:27.821-07:002010-04-17T18:11:27.821-07:00Re Wagner & Das Rheingold: I'm not 100% ce...Re Wagner & Das Rheingold: I'm not 100% certain, but Wagner lived in Dresden during the 1840s as its Hofkapellmeister. My understanding is that he began sketching the plot of the Ring during that period. So one may argue that Das Rheingold has its "birth" in Dresden? [I'm currently reading Jonathan Carr's The Wagner Clan.]y2knoreply@blogger.com