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Opera and Drama Paperback / softback - 1995
by Richard Wagner
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- Title Opera and Drama
- Author Richard Wagner
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition New edition
- Condition New
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Date 1995-06-01
- Features Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780803297654
- ISBN 9780803297654 / 0803297653
- Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 8.51 x 5.6 x 1.1 in (21.62 x 14.22 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Drama, Opera
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95005263
- Dewey Decimal Code 782.1
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From the rear cover
With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.