Negus, addressing a doubt expressed by another Wagner fan who said that seeing a shortened Ring would be like seeing only the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, answered But most of the Sistine Chapel is on the ceiling.
Negus says he jumped at the chance to do it, figuring this was my opportunity to really prepare my own musical version. In 2002 he conducted the full Dove cycle three times, then in 2004 repeated the cycle again twice.
Nobody else was doing it, but this didnt dissuade Negus who, because of his knowledge of the score, began to see its merit.
Negus studied Arts and journalism at the University of Queensland and was a high school teacher before writing for The Australian and The Australian Financial Review.
Negus has also written several books, including one based on his time in Italy in the early 2000s, and cowrote a series of children's books with Kirsty Cockburn, his partner, in the early 1990s.
Negus lives on a farm near Bellingen on the New South Wales northern coast, with his partner, herself a journalist and a collaborator on many of Negus's projects, and their sons Ned and Serge.
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