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Title: The Good Wagner Opera Guide
Publisher: W&N
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0297644017
ISBN 13: 9780297644019
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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�It is impossible to imagine a world in which Wagner never happened. � He was at the same time a horror, a phenomenon and a genius. But he was Wagner and he has left us some of the greatest work ever created by the human imagination.�

So says Denis Forman, bestselling author of The Good Opera Guide who concentrates here on the greatest operatic composer of all � Richard Wagner.

Wagner�s operas erupted into the 19th-century musical world. Almost single-handedly he changed opera from being an evening of light entertainment to intense, sensuous, highly emotional musical drama. His work was passionate and psychologically complex (Wagner also wrote his own libretti) with musical motifs (leitmotivs) to illustrate mood and character. He wrote fourteen operas including Tristan and Isolde, The Flying Dutchman, Meistersinger, Parsifal, and the mighty tetralogy, The Ring. A meglomanic Jekyll and Hyde character he died adulated and vilified equally.

The Good Wagner Opera Guide is an unpretentious, jargon-free approach to his operas for those who are opera-prone yet opera-ignorant.

About the Author

Sir Denis Forman was a founder member of Granada Television and for many years its Chief Executive and Chairman until his retirement in 1987. During that time he was personally responsible for many of Granada s major drama series including The Jewel in the Crown. Sir Denis was Deputy Chairman of the Royal Opera House for nine years.

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