

In this book Lucy Beckett gives a comprehensive account of Wagner's last and strangest opera. The literary sources of this work, its many links with Wagner's life and thought, its libretto, music and stage history, are all thoroughly examined. There is a full commentary, with extensive quotation, on the work's critical history, and finally, a fresh assessment of its place in the Wagner canon and of its unique quality as a music drama that is both modern and Christian. Full references, a bibliography and a discography are provided. A special chapter of musical analysis is contributed by Arnold Whittall.

Shelve Alban Berg: Lulu

Shelve Alban Berg: Wozzeck

Shelve Benjamin Britten, the Turn of the Screw

Shelve Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd (Cambridge Opera Handbooks)

Shelve Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice

Shelve Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes

Shelve C. W. von Gluck: Orfeo

Shelve Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande

Shelve Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo

Shelve Georges Bizet: Carmen

Shelve Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème

Shelve Giacomo Puccini: Tosca

Shelve Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff

Shelve Giuseppe Verdi: Otello

Shelve Hector Berlioz: Les Troyens (Cambridge Opera Handbooks)

Shelve Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress

Shelve Leoš Janáček: Kát'a Kabanová

Shelve Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio

Shelve Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations

Shelve Richard Strauss: Arabella

Shelve Richard Strauss: Elektra

Shelve Richard Strauss: Salome

Shelve Richard Wagner. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Shelve Richard Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer

Shelve Richard Wagner: Parsifal

Shelve The Threepenny Opera

Shelve Vincenzo Bellini: Norma

Shelve W. A. Mozart: Così fan tutte

Shelve W. A. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Shelve W. A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

Shelve W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni

Shelve W. A. Mozart: Idomeneo

Shelve W. A. Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito

Shelve W. A. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

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