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Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold) by Richard Wagner; Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Andrew Porter (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
Das Rheingold, the opening of Wagner's four-part The Ring of the Nibelung, stands out as more genteel and picturesque than the others. But it immediately establishes the huge scale of the overall work, and the extraordinary musical language that will be displayed throughout. It is a miracle of musical h ...Show more
Der Fliegende Hollander: The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
An essay in the guide places the opera in the context of emerging German Romanticism and another highlights the musical riches of the score. A further article explores the emerging importance of myth to Wagner and his contemporaries. As well as a detailed description of the work's performance history, W ...Show more
Der Fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner; Nicholas John (Volume Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
'A Landmark in Musical History' is John Luke Rose's title for the introduction to this extraordinary piece of theatre. It belongs to the German tradition of mystical writing, and a short note on the poem itself by Martin Swales and Timothy McFarland elucidates some of Wagner's literary techniques. Antho ...Show more
Die Meistersing von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner; Peter Branscombe; English National Opera Staff (Contribution by); Gary Khan (Volume Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Die Meistersinger von N rnberg is the only comedy among Richard Wagner's mature works. Unusually for Wagner, it is set in a historically specific time and place, sixteenthcentury Nuremberg, and tells of a song contest among the town's guildsmen. It nevertheless explores the same themes of renewal, renun ...Show more
Die Meistersinger von Nuïrnberg the Mastersingers of Nuremberg by Richard Wagner; Nicholas John (Volume Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
This opera has been described as "the longest single smile in the German language". But Roland Matthews indicates that violence is not far beneath the surface of this portrait of medieval Nuremberg. Arnold Whittall's analysis gives a bird's-eye view of the complexity of the score. Timothy McFarland expl ...Show more
Die Walkure - (The Valkyrie) by Richard Wagner; Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Andrew Porter (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
"Things like this are written only for people who have good powers of endurance (so really for nobody!)", wrote Wagner about Die Walküre. Yet, as Geoffrey Skelton points out, the opera has enjoyed a separate popularity and existence from the Ring Cycle. George Gillespie shows just how the string of myth ...Show more
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) by Richard Wagner; Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Andrew Porter (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
Richard Wagner's fifteen-hour operatic cycle The Ring of the Nibelung ends with this great music drama. Michael Tanner's essay tackles the scale and meaning not just of this work but of Wagner's whole undertaking, showing that Götterdämmerung is - for all its length - his fastest-moving drama. Composer ...Show more
Lohengrin by Wagner Richard John Nicholas Holden Amanda
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
The legend of the Swan Knight who rescues a princess from the forces of pagan evil is one of Christian Europe's foundation myths. Lohengrin transformed Wagner into an international figure almost overnight, and it remained his most popular work throughout the nineteenth century. Thomas Grey proposes that ...Show more
Parsifal by Wagner Richard
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
From its conception in 1857 to its first performances in 1882, Parsifal represented the culmination of the themes that preoccupied Wagner during the latter part of his life. This guide includes a series of articles on Wagner's profound and complex opera, which the composer preferred to call a Bu¨hnenwei ...Show more
Siegfried by Richard Wagner; Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Andrew Porter (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
Wagner wanted Siegfried, the third music drama in The Ring of the Nibelung, to be the most popular of the cycle. Despite its many beautiful and dramatic scenes, it has not fulfilled its composer's aspiration: Professor Ulrich Weisstein examines why. Professor Anthony Newcomb contributes a detailed analy ...Show more
Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner; Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Rodney Blumer (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
What can explain Wagner's obsession with Tannhäuser, which he first conceived in 1845 and still considered unfinished at his death in 1883? Describing of the struggle of a man torn between erotic love and spiritual fulfilment, the opera contains the kernels of all his later works: man's need for love an ...Show more
Tristan und Isolde - English National Opera Guide 6 by Richard Wagner; Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Andrew Porter (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
'A Landmark in Musical History' is John Luke Rose's title for the introduction to this extraordinary piece of theatre. It belongs to the German tradition of mystical writing, and a short note on the poem itself by Martin Swales and Timothy McFarland elucidates some of Wagner's literary techniques. Antho ...Show more
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