Rienzi the German Empire and making it great once more." The original performance version of "Rienzi" was lost in the Dresden bombing of 1945, and the manuscript (on which it had been based) was lost in Berlin in 1945. No full copies had been made of either version, as far as is known. However, "Rienzi" was never established by the composer into a finalized version, so all performances of it since 1945 have been reconstructions. A vocal score of the early 1840s, based on Wagner's draft, remains as the only existing primary source. Two surviving full scores made in Dresden in
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,