Opera and drama /
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...
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
1995
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Table of Contents:
- Opera and the nature of music
- The play and the nature of dramatic poetry
- The arts of poetry and tone in the drama of the future