What is the English name for the Wagner opera 'Gotterdammerung'?
I Medici Richard Wagner's tetralogy "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (whose fourth installment is called "Twilight of the Gods" (Gotterdammerung)). The remaining two operas were never completed. Leoncavallo sought to create an "epic poem" for the stage. However, one contemporary review of the premiere stated: In "I Medici" we have a historical opera like those that have been made many times before and will be hence ... [but] we do not have either an epoch or a set of characters brought truthfully to life; we do not have, in a word, that counterpart of the mythic trilogy [sic] of Wagner at which Leoncavallo
Opera in English opera Messaline being the first work by an Englishman to be produced at La Scala). In the 20th century, English opera began to assert more independence, with works of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Rutland Boughton and later Benjamin Britten, who, in a series of fine works that remain in standard repertory today, revealed an excellent flair for the dramatic and superb musicality. Nevertheless, foreign influence (now coming mainly from Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Strauss), was still strong. One example is Josef Holbrooke's "The Cauldron of Annwn" trilogy. The influence of Wagner's "Ring" can be seen in the choice of a mythological