Bruckner never wrote an opera, and as much as he was a fan of Wagner's music dramas, he was uninterested in drama.: "Studying Tristan Bruckner used a piano score without text – a sign of how unconcerned he was with opera as drama." In 1893 he thought about writing an opera called Astra based on a novel by Gertrud Bollé-Hellmund. Although he attended performances of Wagner's operas, he was much more interested in the music than the plot. After seeing Wagner's Götterdämmerung, he asked: "Tell me, why did they burn the woman at the end?" Nor did Bruckner ever write an oratorio.
Bruckner never wrote an opera and as much as he was a fan of Wagne?r's music dramas, he was uninterested in drama.: "Studying Tristan Bruckner used a piano score without text – a sign of how unconcerned he was with opera as drama." In 1893 he thought abou,t writing an opera called Astra based on a novel by Gertrud Bollé-Hellmund. Although he attended performances of Wagner's operas, he was much more interested in the music than the plot. After seeing Wagner's Götterdämmerung, he asked: "Tell me, why did they burn the woman at the end" Nor did Bruckner ever write an oratorio.