Wagner Project

My new column uses Stravinsky's critique of Wagner's mythological operas as religion to examine today's cultic thinking. As Trump devotees protest health measures and Biden supporters cancel , we must embrace critical thinking or bring on our own Ragnarök.

Read it here:
https://wildhunt.org/2020/04/opinion-a-ragnarok-of-ones-own.html

"This is trash bin material. As long as people like this keep having children, we’re going to have people like this on the planet. It’s just steeped in ignorance."

Eric Owens, Wotan in Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, on racist reactions to African-Americans playing Norse gods

https://www.norsemyth.org/2018/10/wotan-in-chicago-interview-with-eric.html

"In a lot of ways, [Wagner] was quite a detestable person, and he would be none too pleased to see me performing Wotan."

Eric Owens on playing a Norse god in Lyric Opera's Ring Cycle, the mythic opera series by the genius composer and rabid anti-Semite

Read my candid interview with the African-American star of "Siegfried," which opens tomorrow: https://www.norsemyth.org/2018/10/wotan-in-chicago-interview-with-eric.html