[Buddha-l] Ready for this, folks? Interesting idea.........

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Apart from this I think the idea is rather tasteless Wagner being an arrogant prat.

Erik

Jo <ugg-5 at spro.net> schreef:

>Didn't the Buddha speak Magadhi?
>Joanna
>
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>
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22478474  
>
>A new opera attempting to combine Wagner's interest in Buddhism with
>Buddhism, so that the Wagner impersonator speaks in German, the Buddha
>and
>Buddhist texts to be sung in Pali. Gombrich did the Pali translating.
>
>"An opera written by composer Jonathan Harvey about Richard Wagner is
>to be
>partly performed in Pali, the 2,000-year-old language spoken by Buddha.
>(As
>I understand, Buddha's spoken language was definitely not Pali. With
>Gombrich around, why can't BBC get it right? Arg] Welsh National Opera
>(WNO)
>director David Pountney said the ancient Asian language was the most
>appropriate for the production, titled Wagner Dream.............
>Wagner Dream will be staged at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, on 6-7
>June, with a performance in Birmingham on 12 June."
>
>"In the show, a dying Wagner reflects on his own unfinished Buddhist
>opera."
>I wonder if they had any music mss notes to work with. 
>Joanna
> 
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