The Tristan factory

How the industrial revolution entered Richard Wagners home

Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times

Auteur : Jos Hermans

The following story gives an idea of the self-confidence with which Wagner tackled his subjects, the same kind of self-confidence by which he dared to invest 20 years of his life in The Ring while spending most of that time in uncertainty as to whether the work would ever be performed at all, a work, by…