With Wagner it is like with Shakespeare for me. There are the pieces that are beautiful and fragile and wonderful like there are the quotes you use to give and remember. But then there is the rest, the burden of heavy-heavy "heaviness" and somewhat bombastic shelling by sound and word that makes me wish like Frau Kaleun: "When does it end?" Yes, both men were great names in their field of arts. But I like only a few pieces, fragments, of their works. But these are enough to make me respect them as said great names.
However, in Germany there will be discussions again as if the decision by the Israeli chamber orchestra needs any sanctionising or patronising by German "experts" on all kinds of matters.
Regarding Nordic epic tales and German sagas, I like them, I have read them often when being a boy and teen, and I still know them. Very... Klingon
