As an “outsider” music major, my earliest connections with Wagner were purely literary. Wagner – as the villain – came to my attention when I first encountered Nietzsche some 27 years ago. The first thing I came into contact with was “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” in Chutunan’s translation. In order to know more about the author, I found all the translations of Nietzsche I could find in the library, from “The Birth of Tragedy” to “The Will to Power” “wait. It’s unfair – because the composer doesn’t have a chance to speak. Wagner, too, remained an accused silencer until his graduate studies in literature and arts in the mid-1990s. I have…