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Wagner (Wagner, Siegfried - Composer): Hands
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Like all the degenerates, Wagner is wholly sterile as a poet, although he has written a long series of dramatic works. The creative force capable of reproducing the spectacle of universal normal life is denied him. He has recourse to his own mystico-erotic emotions for the emotional content of his pieces, and the external incidents forming their skeleton are purely the fruits of reading, the reminiscences of books which have made an impression [192] on him. This is the great difference between the healthy and the degenerate poet who receives his sentiments at second-hand. The former is able to 'plunge into full human life,' as Goethe says; to seize it, and either make it enter all breathing and palpitating into a poem which itself ... becomes a part of natural life, or else remould it with idealizing art, suppressing its accidental, accessory features, so as to make prominent the essential; and in this way convincingly to reveal law behind enigmatically bewildering phenomena. The degenerate subject, on the contrary, can do nothing with life; he is blind and deaf to it. He is a stranger in the midst of healthy men.
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Had Wagner wanted to write an opera with a contemporary setting, he certainly had an important theme ready to hand in the failed Revolution of 1848—in which he fled Dresden, with a price on his head. But he found it safer to deal with questions of the Misuse of Power & the Uses & Abuses of Love from an historical—even legendary—perspective.
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Although he has been singing Wagner for many years now, it is not Domingo's natural metier, and it has obviously not come easily. He looked uncomfortable much of the time. On stage he can be a convincing actor, but here he stood clasping and unclasping his hands, when not mopping his brow.
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