Parsifal Paperback / softback
by Richard Wagner
Paperback / softback
Description
These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera.
They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. More than any other work in the operatic repertory, Parsifal demands a personal commitment and response.
As the culmination of half a lifetime’s preoccupation with the issues of compassion and redemption, it has profound philosophical implications.
As the ultimate example of Wagner’s idiom it is an extraordinary musical structure.
The unique quality of the subject inspired a wholly original musical conception.
Here are four very different essays designed, in their variety, to set you thinking about it what it means to you.
The translation was commissioned for the first production by English National Opera in 1986. Contains:A Very Human Epic Mike AshmanRecapitulation of a Lifetime Dieter BorchmeyerExperiencing Music and Imagery in ‘Parsifal’ Robin Holloway‘Parsifal’: Words and Music Carolyn AbbateDiscussions into the Dramaturgy of ‘Parsifal’ Gerd RienäckerThematic Guide Lionel Friend‘Parsifal’ poem by Richard Wagner‘Parsifal’ English translation by Andrew PorterDiscography Cathy PetersonBibliography
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages, pages b/w
- Publisher:Alma Books Ltd
- Publication Date:24/10/2016
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- ISBN:9780714544359
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages, pages b/w
- Publisher:Alma Books Ltd
- Publication Date:24/10/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780714544359
