Rienzi hymns, processions and the musical clash of arms". Cosima Wagner recorded Wagner's comment in her diary for 20 June 1871: "Rienzi" is very repugnant to me, but they should at least recognize the fire in it; I was a music director and I wrote a grand opera; the fact that it was this same music director who gave them some hard nuts to crack – that's what should astonish them. Thus the work has remained outside today's Wagner canon, and was only performed at the Bayreuth Festival in 2013, staged by Matthias von Stegmann. Although the composer disclaimed it, it
Overture of the Wicked of Iced Earth's Box of the Wicked collection. The four songs features most of the band's October 2006-March 2007 lineup, with guitarist Jon Schaffer playing bass, as former bassist James "Bo" Wallace left before recording began. "Overture of the Wicked" is the only official Iced Earth release with former guitarist Tim Mills, and the first with drummer Brent Smedley since 1999's "The Melancholy E.P.". On the reasoning behind doing the EP, Tim Owens said: Overture of the Wicked Overture of the Wicked is an EP by Iced Earth, which was released on June 4, 2007 in Europe and June 5,