Just out of idle curiosity, I wonder if anyone ever released Wagner's
complete Ring Cycle [Der Ring des Nibelungen] on piano roll. The
"cycle" consists of four operas: "Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)",
"Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)", "Siegfried" and "Götterdämmerung
(Twilight of the Gods)" -- about 15 hours playing time in total!
I'm guessing that it may have been released on one of the Welte
formats.
Mark Williamson
Australia
[ As George Bernard Shaw sardonically (and slightly unfairly) noted
[ of the last opera Götterdämmerung: "And now, O Nibelungen Spectator,
[ pluck up; for all allegories come to an end somewhere... The rest of
[ what you are going to see is opera, and nothing but opera." Source:
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen -- Robbie
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