Tonight -- Show 116: Magic!

This is a repeat of a show from December 2014, which has understandably some references to the Holidays.

There are a number of pieces describing various magical artifacts from The Magic Flute, Mozart's immortal Singspiel (musical play).

There are a few tracks describing elements from Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs, the enormous opera cycle, which lasts a total of nearly 15 hours.  This is Wagner's Ring, not to be confused with Tolkien's Ring, even if they are distantly related.

There is an excerpt from Hansel and Gretel, which is a fairy story about the evil magic of a witch.  The opera was written by the original Engelbert Humperdinck.  (There is even a song by the more recent crooner, Engelbert Humperdinck.)

I should have included some songs from the Disney magical fairy tales, but I did not.  Full playlist will be added sometime this weekend!!  Here is a link to the blog about the original broadcast, though the podcast files were never uploaded.  The order was changed slightly.

Archie