Prong - Sublime

Wagner continued to work intensively on the Nibelungs; he devoted his work to Liszt. In fact, moving from end to beginning, after The Death of Siegfried and Young Siegfried on July 1, he completed the text of the Valkyrie. There was still a prologue. All summer and autumn, he tirelessly improved his grandiose brainchild. “I remained unshakable in my intention to write“ The Nibelungs ”as if the modern opera house did not exist at all, and the ideal theater that I dreamed of had to arise.” Thoughts about the "ideal theater" then seemed unrealizable to Wagner. Indeed, their realization was still far away. But it was the work on the Nibelungs that made Wagner dream of a miracle again and again ...