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Author: M. Owen Lee
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing brief plot summaries of the four music dramas comprising the 'Ring', Lee explores the music, myths and meaning of Wagner's controversial masterwork.
Author: M. Owen Lee
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780879101862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Limelight). Commentary on and a concise, lucid interpretation of the opera world's most complex masterwork, expanded from the author's popular intermission talks during Met Opera broadcasts. "Anyone, whether knowledgeable or not, will profit by reading it..." Opera Quarterly
Author: Arthur Rackham
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-07-02
Total Pages: 75
ISBN-13: 0486319008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition of Rackham's images, widely regarded as the greatest representations of Wagner's drama, comprises 64 full-page color illustrations and 9 vignettes from Siegfried, The Twilight of the Gods, The Rhinegold, and The Valkyrie.
Author: John Culshaw
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the author's Metropolitan Opera intermission radio talks. Bibliography: p. [103]-105.
Author: Richard Wagner
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2018-07-26
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 0241305861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operas-The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried and Twilight of the Gods - are complete worlds, conjuring up extraordinary mythological landscapes through sound as much as staging. Wagner wrote the entire libretto before embarking on the music. Discarding the grand choruses and bravura duets central to most operas, he used the largest musical forces in the context often of only a handful of singers on stage. The words were essential: he was telling a story and making an argument in a way that required absolute attention to what was said. The libretto for The Ring lies at the heart of nineteenth century culture. It is in itself a work of power and grandeur and it had an incalculable effect on European and specifically German culture. John Deathridge's superb new translation, with notes and a fascinating introduction, is essential for anyone who wishes to get to grips with one of the great musical experiences.
Author: M. Owen Lee
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007-12-15
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1442692952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Wagner's Die Meistersinger has always called forth superlatives from those who have fallen under its spell. Toscanini wanted to lay his baton down for the last time only after he had conducted a performance of it. Paderewski called it 'the greatest work of genius ever achieved by any artist in any field of human endeavour.' H.L. Mencken declared, 'It took more skill to plan and write it than it took to plan and write the whole canon of Shakespeare.' And yet Wagner's many-splendoured comedy has come under severe criticism in recent years for what has been called its 'dark underside,' its 'fascist brutality,' and its 'ugly anti-Semitism.' In Wagner and the Wonder of Art, renowned opera expert M. Owen Lee addresses that criticism. He also provides an introduction to the opera and an analysis that will surprise even those veteran operagoers who may not have explored the work's intricate structure and the emotional drama at its centre. The book includes the on-air commentary that Father Lee gave during the first radio broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera after the events of 9/11. He thought it necessary, after attempting to refute the charges leveled against Wagner's opera, to say something about its truthfulness, its life-affirming music, its insight into the madness that can destroy human lives, and its witness to the importance of art for the survival of our civilizations.
Author: Frederick Paul Walter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-07-15
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1538136732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Wagner’s magnum opus meets the celebrated translator of Jules Verne novels in this colorful and original work. Frederick Paul Walter makes The Valkyrie accessible not only to scholars and opera buffs but also to fans of Tolkien, Star Wars, and Hogwarts through a dazzling new translation in lively modern English and annotations that spotlight the libretto, lyrics, and stage directions. The translation conveys Wagner’s humor, rhymes, alliterative effects, subliminal messages, and inventive tale spinning, plus it also gets the most basic ingredient right: the actual story! It highlights the motives, secrets, and plot twists—what’s really going on and what its narrative shows. The Annotated Ring Cycle includes newly created graphic-novel style illustrations that visually represent the storyline alongside full color photos of classic artwork by Arthur Rackham, Howard Pyle, Aubrey Beardsley, the 1876 costume and set designs, and much more.
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-01-08
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780300125986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt portrays the existential struggles and downfall of an entire people, the Burgundians, in a military conflict with the Huns and their king."--Jacket.
Author: Grant Morrison
Publisher: DC
Published:
Total Pages: 46
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKImagine a world where the Nazis not only won World War II but went on to direct world culture for the next 60 years with the help of an orphaned, alien super-weapon known as Overman! But hope is not lost! Rising from the ashes of oppression is a diverse band of heroes raging against the fascist regime--a band of heroes known as THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS!
Author: J. K. Holman
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2003-03
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9781574670707
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Amadeus). This book explores the mythology, story, music, characters and language of Wagner's monumental work. At its heart is a concordance of the keywords in the four librettos, a powerful reference tool. The volume also includes a brief synopsis of each of the four operas, a presentation of the 145 principal musical motives in order of appearance, and a discussion of the characters and their relationships, listing their appearances and the musical motives associated with them.
