Long days

These are long days. It’s fun working with the Ring, but also hard sometimes, especially when the job is mostly about reconstructing. Still frustrating that so many people are absent. Unfortunately Jens Krogsgaard was ill today, but we managed to consolidate the second scene and to rehearse the ending with Poul and Randi for the first time. Little by little the second scene is now appearing more sharply. It’s so important that there’s something at stake in this scene all the time. Otherwise the outlines are easily getting a little unclear.
Gave a lecture to the Wagner Society last night. Good for me to have the headlines of the concept through the whole Ring refreshed - and funny to get a couple of challenging questions, like: “How much is allowed?” I feel though that I succeeded in giving a good definition on, why it can’t be put like that. There is no such key.