Richard Wagner

These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. More than any other work in the operatic repertory, Parsifal demands a personal commitment and response. As the culmination of half a lifetime’s preoccupation with the issues of compassion and redemption, it has profound philosophical implications. As the ultimate example of Wagner’s idiom it is an extraordinary musical structure. The unique quality of the subject inspired a wholly original musical conception. Here are four very different essays designed, in their variety, to set you thinking about it what it means to you. The translation was commissioned for the first production by English National Opera in 1986. Contains:A Very Human Epic Mike AshmanRecapitulation of a Lifetime Dieter BorchmeyerExperiencing Music and Imagery in ‘Parsifal’ Robin Holloway‘Parsifal’: Words and Music Carolyn AbbateDiscussions into the Dramaturgy of ‘Parsifal’ Gerd RienäckerThematic Guide Lionel Friend‘Parsifal’ poem by Richard Wagner‘Parsifal’ English translation by Andrew PorterDiscography Cathy PetersonBibliography

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 explores the significance of the choice of subject: that nostalgia for a pre-industrial community, which was a symptom of the German nationalist movement. The long text has many subtleties which opera audiences can hardly appreciate without reading it, and the musical themes are numbered to indicate where they occur. Contents: ‘My most genial creation…’, Roland Matthews; A Musical Commentary, Amold Whittall; Wagner’s Nuremberg, Timothy McFarland; Die Meistersingers von Nürnberg: Poem by Richard Wagner; The Mastersingers of Nuremberg: English translation by Frederick Jameson, revised by Gordon Kember and Norman Feasey

Briefwechsel zwischen Wagner und Liszt ist ein unver nderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1889. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ern hrung, Medizin und weiteren Genres. Der Schwerpunkt des Verlages liegt auf dem Erhalt historischer Literatur. Viele Werke historischer Schriftsteller und Wissenschaftler sind heute nur noch als Antiquit ten erh ltlich. Hansebooks verlegt diese B cher neu und tr gt damit zum Erhalt selten gewordener Literatur und historischem Wissen auch f r die Zukunft bei.

When Tristan is escorting the Irish princess to his King so he can marry her, Tristan falls in love with the wife to be and starts to meet secretly with the new queen to the anger of the King. When Tristan takes a deadly blow in a duel with the king, Isolda is called on to see if she can save her one true love.