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Buttitta's Folk Opera Diggin' the Ring: The Ring Cycle, Songs of Protest, and the American Left
<p>In 1946, Anthony Buttitta and Lawrence Gellert collaborated on an opera libretto loosely based on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Their folk opera, Diggin' the Ring, borrowed the narrative structure of the Ring Cycle. Buttitta replaced Wagner's characters with an all-black, mundane cast. Despite forty …