Family History
Research – Paternal/Maternal side, including review of
DNA techniques – Presentation;
mtDNA mother-of-mother Rossiter – Nicholls –
Holbrook – May – Dashper – Illustrated
Report
Müpa
Budapest, June 2018: fanfares Tannhäuser 14thAct
1, Act
2, Act
3,
WagnerResearch
Marx vs
Wagner: a Timeline Comparison with Analysis work
in progress
Birds
in opera
Firebird
finale by Stravinsky with composer conducting! The
mythical Phoenix bird rises from the ashes
The
Ring: Siegfried towards end Act II by Wagner. Siegfried
slays the dragon. The forest bird instructs Siegfried,
firstly to claim the ring and the tarnhelm from the dragon's
cave and secondly to beware of Mime who is going to try and
poison him. Mime has only a few minutes left.
The
Ring: Siegfried finale Act II by Wagner. After Mime's end
the forest bird plays cupid, lining Siegfried up with a date
with Brünnhilde. Now if Honey Buzzard could do this!!
The
Ring: Götterdämmerung - Act II finale Betrüger
ich - und betrogen! Hagen (Nibelung), Gunther (Gibichung),
Brünnhilde (ex-Valkyrie) seek the death of Siegfried
(Volsung) with the Nibelung (lower earth in Lord of the
Rings) after the ring from the Volsung (middle earth).
Bayreuth Festival. No birds but if I had the choice of only
one bit of Wagner to take on a desert island, this would be
it!