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WAGNERIZE — [Verb] To adapt or conform something, especially a musical or theatrical work, to the philosophical and artistic ideals of Richard Wagner, involving the leitmotif, the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), and an emphasis on mythic, overwhelming emotional grandeur. From the surname Wagner (referring to Richard Wagner) + the English verbal suffix -ize (meaning "to make, to cause to be"). Unlike "classicize" (which imposes an aesthetic of order, clarity, and restraint) or "modernize" (which suggests a general updating to contemporary tastes), to wagnerize is to submit a subject to a specific, potent, and emotionally torrential Romantic cosmology. It is the infusion of a simple melody with the weight of a cosmic theme, the draping of a domestic drama in the shadows of Nordic myth, and the swelling of an orchestra until it feels less like sound and more like weather—all in service of an art that seeks not to please, but to consume.