The Finale of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung and its Relationship with the baroque ‘Licenza’
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https://doi.org/10.3989/anuariomusical.2011.66.129Keywords:
Brünnhilde, Dido, Didone abbandonata, Götterdämmerung, Licenza, Metastasio, WagnerAbstract
When Pietro Metastasio, at the beginning of the 1750s, reworked his famous libretto Didone abbandonata from 1724 for a performance in Madrid, he added a licenza, which is introduced by a detailed stage direction. To this stage direction the finale of Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung corresponds in a striking way, suggesting a dependence of the newer on the older piece. However, Wagner was not concerned with paying homage to an aristocratic leadership, which is what characterises the baroque licenza, but on the contrary with symbolically representing the end of the old society of gods by referring to an historic element.
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