Have I
mentioned the big event coming up for us this summer? No?
Well, this summer we will be taking an incredible journey with gods,
demigods, giants, dragons, dwarves, flying horses, magic swords and water
nymphs. Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the
Nibelung) thrusts you into a wild world of lust, anger, love and hate, adultery
and incest, murder, death and destruction, and a wronged woman’s final
revenge. It’s a helluva ride.
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| Wagner's Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Germany - Photo by Rico Neitzel |
We’ve been
on this ride many times before. Dan and
I are among the hard core “Ring Nuts” who’ll go anywhere in the world for a
complete “Ring Cycle.” But this time, we
will actually be seeing the “Ring Cycle” at the festspielhaus, the opera house Wagner built in Bayreuth, Germany, for
his masterpiece. For Wagner groupies
this is Mecca. Recipients of the coveted
tickets are drawn from a lottery that contains hundreds of thousands of names
every year. This year our names were
selected.
What does
this have to do with shoes? Well,
everything. A girl can’t attend a
special, perhaps once in a lifetime, event without a very special pair of new
shoes, n’est-ce pas? And, so, the hunt for the perfect pair of
special occasion shoes was on!
