The BBC – TV documentary “Wagner”, with RICHARD BURTON: what’s your assessment of it?

Question by Alberich: The BBC – TV documentary “Wagner”, with RICHARD BURTON: what’s your assessment of it?
I recently contracted with Netflix for viewing of DVDs. And was thrilled to discover that “Wagner” starring Richard Burton was available.

And have already viewed the 1st of the 4 DVD set(total running time, over 9 hrs.). But was very disappointed; cancelled #-2 and #-3 DVDs, and opted to only review the 4th: hoping to at least see some scenes of the actual annual festival held at the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Germany.

I thought the script was terrible: outright distortion of some of the facts of his life if I’m not mistaken(and I very well could be). But too, Burton had aged something awful by the time the series was made, and didn’t give a very convincing performance in my opinion.

Unless one is an Wagnerian fanatic – which I’m not, though, admittedly an avid one – the OVERLOAD of music from his operas, was difficult too dealt with: at least it was for me.

Here’s a You Tube clip from it for those who aren’t in anyway familiar with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiDe_HruhlY

If you’ve viewed it, what’s your assessment? Would you recommend it? Or not?

If you haven’t viewed it, do you think you might want to?

Alberich

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