The Wagner Game

Started by ComposerOfAvantGarde, April 18, 2017, 12:45:26 AM

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ComposerOfAvantGarde

 Der fliegende Holländer: 3
Tannhäuser: 3 (-1)
Lohengrin: 3
Tristan und Isolde: 6 (+1)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: 7
Das Rheingold: 6
Die Walküre: 7
Siegfried: 5
Götterdämmerung: 5
Parsifal: 4 (-1)

kishnevi

 Der fliegende Holländer: 3
Tannhäuser: 3
Lohengrin: 1 (-2)
Tristan und Isolde: 6
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: 7
Das Rheingold: 6
Die Walküre: 7
Siegfried: 5
Götterdämmerung: 5
Parsifal: 5 (+1)

Maestro267

I think I've done this right...

Der fliegende Holländer: 2 (-1)
Tannhäuser: 3
Lohengrin: 0 (-1)
Tristan und Isolde: 6
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: 7
Das Rheingold: 6
Die Walküre: 7
Siegfried: 5
Götterdämmerung: 6 (+1)
Parsifal: 5

kishnevi

The Swan Knight has sung his swan song!
I suppose the phantom frigateer, the Nebulous Netherlander, should join him.

Der fliegende Holländer: 0 (-2)
Tannhäuser: 3
Tristan und Isolde: 7 (+1)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: 7
Das Rheingold: 6
Die Walküre: 7
Siegfried: 5
Götterdämmerung: 6
Parsifal: 5

9.  Der fliegende Hollander
10. Lohengrin
11. Rienzi
12. Das Liebesverbot
13. Die Feen

Jaakko Keskinen

You know, a few years back I wouldn't have cared if Lohengrin would fall so early, it being back then my least favorite of mature operas by Wagner, but now that I know the work so much better, I grieve.  :'(
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

ComposerOfAvantGarde

I really love Lohengrin these days, perhaps the plot of that one is not as interesting as his other works but it still seems to grab me right in the feels like all Wagner does.

Tannhäuser: 3
Tristan und Isolde: 8 (+1)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: 7
Das Rheingold: 5 (-1)
Die Walküre: 7
Siegfried: 5
Götterdämmerung: 6
Parsifal: 4 (-1)

kishnevi

I don't think it's fair for me to vote again with no intervening votes, so I will merely arrange the operas according to current point levels
7 points
Die Walkure/Tristan und Isolde/Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg

6 points
Das Rheingold/Gotterdammerung

5 points
Siegfried/Parsifal

4 points
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3 points
Tannhauser

Relegated from the Festspielhaus to the Margrafintheater
(In reverse order of relegation)
Der Fliegende Hollander
Lohengrin
Rienzi
Das Liebesverbot
Die Feen

kishnevi

Wait Jessop crossposted.....
I vote +1 to Parsifal, minus 1 each to Tannhauser and Gotterdammerung.

kishnevi

Revised ranking after Jessop and I voted
8 points

Tristan und Isolde

7 points

Die Walkure Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg

6 points

Das Rheingold

5 points

Siegfried Gotterdammerung Parsifal

4 points

(None)

3 points

(None)

2 points

Tannhauser

schnittkease

Shall we not continue?

Tristan und Isolde: 8
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: 7
Die Walküre: 7
Das Rheingold: 6
Götterdämmerung: 5
Parsifal: 6 (+1)
Siegfried: 5
Tannhäuser: 0 (-2)

8. Tannhäuser
9. The Flying Dutchman
10. Lohengrin
11. Rienzi
12. Das Liebesverbot
13. Die Feen

ComposerOfAvantGarde

Let's. I want to make the Ring a little bit more even and allow Götterdämmerung to have more of a chance against Walküre.

Tristan und Isolde: 8
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: 7
Die Walküre: 6 (-1)
Das Rheingold: 5 (-1)
Götterdämmerung: 6 (+1)
Parsifal: 6
Siegfried: 5