Research Catalog

Title

The complete operas of Richard Wagner / Charles Osborne.

Author

Osborne, Charles, 1927-2017

Publication

North Pomfret, Vt. : Trafalgar Square Pub., 1991, c1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

Irwin K. Carson Collection. mus

Description

288 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In The Complete Operas of Richard Wagner, as in the first four volumes of his famous series on the great opera composers, Charles Osborne first describes the composer's life at the time he wrote each opera, thus providing a biographical thread which runs through the book; follows it with a thorough examination of the libretto and its sources; and lastly tells the story of the opera, which he links to the major musical features." "This book is, in effect, a musical biography of Wagner, tracing his development from his first complete opera, Die Feen, to his last, Parsifal. It serves as an invaluable guide to the often perplexing Wagner oeuvre both for the regular opera-goer and the armchair listener. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
• Opera > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 285) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Die Feen (The Fairies) -- Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love) -- Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes) -- Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) -- Tannhauser und der Sangerkrieg auf dem Wartburg (Tannhauser and the Song Contest on the Wartburg) -- Lohengrin -- Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde) -- Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) -- Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Nibelung's Ring) -- Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold) -- Die Walkure (The Valkyrie) -- Siegfried -- Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods) -- Parsifal.

ISBN

0943955335

LCCN

^^^90070513^

OCLC

• 22811238
• SCSB-10193656

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library