Richard Wagner’s “Total Art-Work” Concept

Richard Wagner's Total Art-work aka Gesamtkunstwerk Concept***see below for corrections*** Preface on Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk premise, explained musical theater, literature, used scenes and music from both films and sitcoms in order to explain what Wagner didn't want to happen in opera, 0:20 Briefly discussed writer, Gustave Flaubert, 1:20 Discussed a snippet from the film, Pulp Fiction, as well as the sitcom, In Living Color, to explain what Wagner repudiated, 1:58 Explained incest in The Bible, Persian and Greeco-Roman Mythology, 4:24 Discussed composers who influenced both the development of opera and Wagner, 6:05 Discussed Wagner's Leitmotif and how Wagner used music to denote characters, even when they were absent from the stage, 7:00 Die Valkyrie Discussed some of Die Valkyrie's plot. Explained the Viking gods, 8:02 Spoiler alert: Siegfried is Sigmund and Sieglinde's Son, born from incest. Siegfried is Wotan's Grandson, and Brunhilde's Nephew ***FYI: In a word salad, I said "facetious," by mistake, but I really meant "Fastidious" ***FYI: I said, "soldiers who were killed while fighting against Valhalla." I meant soldiers who were killed on the side of Valhalla ***FYI: I said "influence" scenes from Star Wars, but I meant to say that music denotes and introduces ideas in Film scoring as it also does in Wagnerian Music Dramas via the use of musical Leit Motifs John Sarkis