Must add that via musical studies and choral singing I know a fair amount about Catholic ritual, and I've read the Gospels, though not recently. Even though I am Jewish I can tell Catholicism and mainstream Christianity from whatever the heck it is that Wagner dreamed up. 2/2
Wagnerism. I have this theory, BTW and not exclusively mine, that Wagner is the biggest Mary Sue in the history of human endeavor, and nobody else projected as much of his own ideals, desires, envies, and just plain wishful thinking into his art. Each character is some bit of him.
Hell yes.
So true!
I have some of that (grew up Episcopalian, sang choir) but no historical perspective on the varieties of Christianity and creative rewritings. (Dante is not exactly orthodox, for example.)