cantilenas

Updated: June 26, 2025

Wagner did not find it possible to get this continuity when he came to set to music the arguments amongst Wotan, Fricka and Freia: there are short cantilenas, but they are constantly broken by recitative. With the entry of the Giants the music makes, so to say, a fresh start.

John F. Runciman - Richard Wagner: Composer of Operas