Siegfried

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani often returns to Siegfried through Wagner's Ring cycle. He traces his path: the wild child raised by Mime in the forest, who finds out that the dwarf is not his father, reforges the sword Nothung, kills the dragon, understands the language of the birds and passes through the flames to Brünnhilde1. Most often he presents him through Nietzsche, who sets this pagan, free, healthy and pitiless hero against Parsifal2. His sword shatters Wotan's spear: for him, this free act makes destinies unpredictable3. He compares him to Achilles and to Heracles. He makes him a figure of the founder who must not himself be founded, and sees in his one vulnerable spot an image of the vulnerability of capitalism4. In Götterdämmerung he stresses the forgetting of Brünnhilde brought on by the potion and the anamnesis that comes before his death5. Finally, he points to the role of the music: the bird scene, which he calls the scherzo of the Ring, and the funeral march, where only the instruments speak.

1. 19 #15 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?18 Feb 2021 · 1:08:11
2. 2Musicosophie 12. Nietzsche (tout) contre Wagner28 Jan 2021 · 1:42:47
3. 3#3 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...6 Nov 2020 · 20:22
4. 49 #14 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?5 Feb 2021 · 43:42
5. 59 #19 Le Crépuscule des dieux ou de la répétition à la libération • Partie 214 Apr 2021 · 23:50

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