Decoding Wagner : an invitation to his world of music drama /

• Main Author: May, Thomas (Thomas Robert) (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Pompton Plains, NJ : Amadeus Press, 2004.
• Subjects: Wagner, Richard, > 1813-1883 > Ερμηνεία και κριτική; Όπερες > Οδηγοί ανάλυσης

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : what's all the fuss?
• Setting the stage : Wagner's emergence as an artist
• Navigating a way into Wagner : Der Fliegende Holländer
• What kind of love to sing? Tannhäuser
• Making contact : the tragedy of Lohengrin
• The world's breath : Tristan und Isolde
• A touch of madness : the creative spirit and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
• Total artistic clarity : an overview of the Ring cycle
• Shimmering enigmas : Das Rheingold
• The heart of the matter : Die Walküre
• Coming of age : Siegfried
• In the end is the beginning : Götterdämmerung
• Made wise through compassion : Wagner's swan song Parsifal.