The last tunings before getting on the stage in "Das Rheingold."

"Wagner does, in a certain way, a 'modernization' of the atavistic vision of the world as an immortal and repetitive conflict between forces that never rest. And these forces are both in the universe and within us. The gods and their myths are, in this way, mirrors of our agonies ('agon' in attic greek is conflict) which devastated human beings." (Pondé)