The lives and death of Yevgeny Prigozhin passed through ‘The Godfather’, ‘The Prince’, and finally ‘Gotterdammerung’. The former street thug, jailbird, and hot dog seller rose to power and riches, forgot Machiavelli’s maxim about shooting to kill, and, in a scene a modern Richard Wagner might write, plunged to earth in flames. The opera continues. If Putin is the Wotan figure in Gotterdammerung he may meet a similar end, but not yet.