Environmental Awareness: Science and Wagner's Ring

Jan Hartley and Michael Yeargan, projection designer and set designer respectively for "The Ring of the Nibelung" talk with Carol Tang, earth scientist and director of Public Programs at the California Academy of Sciences, to provide perspectives on the intersection of science and the environment in Wagner's work and the rise of environmental stewardship in Germany and the U.S. The Ring was first presented in its entirety in 1876 following rapid industrialization in Germany, while at the same time, pioneer conservationist John Muir studied and wrote about plant life in the Sierra Nevada mountains.