tetralogy

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Picture an opera made entirely of a mad scene, and you have “Foreign Experiences,” an installment in “Now Eleanor’s Idea,” Ashley’s tetralogy whose construction recalls another four-work saga, Wagner’s “Ring.”

From New York Times • May 10, 2024

This one was a tetralogy: The Filipino champion and his Mexican rival met four times over eight years.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2022

As director Francesca Zambello recently recalled in the New York Times, “Götterdämmerung,” the finale of the tetralogy, was the feminist, liberal, Jewish Supreme Court justice’s favorite opera.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2020

His magnum opus, the Aegypt tetralogy, took more than two decades to complete, and his readers, a patient and faithful bunch, have become grudgingly accustomed to the long intervals between books.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2019

The culminating art-splendor of his life, however, was the production of his stupendous tetralogy, the "Ring der Nibelungen," at the great opera-house at Baireuth, in the summer of the year 1876.

From The Great German Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)