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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: pretentiousness, in pious conviction that the work is of such
enormous importance as to be worth doing well at all costs, the
Bayreuth performances will deserve their reputation. The band is
placed out of sight of the audience, with the more formidable
instruments beneath the stage, so that the singers have not to
sing THROUGH the brass. The effect is quite perfect.
BAYREUTH IN ENGLAND
I purposely dwell on the faults of Bayreuth in order to show that
there is no reason in the world why as good and better
performances of The Ring should not be given in England. Wagner's
scores are now before the world; and neither his widow nor his
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