Nietzsche via Wagner

Feeling Wagner’s depths of passion, depth of thought and construction, in Tristan und Isolde, changes my understanding of -and of the force of -Nietzsche. What he strove to do, in thought, construction and will.

Experiencing Tristan und Isolde (and what an experience the Yuval Sharon production at the Met is) should be a prerequisite for reading Nietzsche – particularly the Gay Science (with a Prelude in Rhymes and Appendix of Song). One feels the literary and operatic power he was going for in Zarathustra.

It is mind (and spirit) opening to now have this experience.

I had no idea.

EXTENSION
Emotion frames intellectual understanding. Intellectual imagination drives a work of emotion. Even after many reads, intersection, particularly from a different medium, creates new depth, new perspectives.