The Ring of Truth

“Nothing in opera is grander than  The Ring , no work more suited to the deep reading the writer gives here.” — Opera News   Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner’s masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that Roger Scruton brings to it in this inspiring account.   Th