Download or read book Wagner s SIEGFRIED Opera Study Guide with Libretto written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Classics Library Series. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new OPERA STUDY GUIDE of Wagner¿s SIEGFRIED, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis; and a new LIBRETTO with German and English translation side-by-side.
Download or read book Siegfried written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Wagner's SIEGFRIED, featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis by Burton D. Fisher, noted opera author and lecturer.
Download or read book Wagner s PARSIFAL Opera Study Guide with Libretto written by Burton D. Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new OPERA STUDY GUIDE of Richard Wagner¿s PARSIFAL, Opera Study Guide with Libretto, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis; and a new LIBRETTO with German and English translation in parallel (side-by-side).
Download or read book Wagner s DIE WALKURE Opera Study Guide with Libretto written by Burton D. Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new OPERA STUDY GUIDE of Wagner¿s DIE WALKURE (The Valkyrie), featuring Principal Characters in the Opera; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis; and a new LIBRETTO with German and English translation side-by-side.
Download or read book Wagner s GOTTERDAMMERUNG Opera Study Guide with Libretto written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Classics Library Series. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new OPERA STUDY GUIDE of Wagner¿s GOTTERDAMMERUNG (Twilight of the Gods), featuring Principal Characters in the Opera; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis; and a new LIBRETTO with German and English translation side-by-side.
Download or read book Wagner s Das RHEINGOLD Opera Study Guide with Libretto written by Burton D. Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new OPERA STUDY GUIDE of Wagner¿s DAS RHEINGOLD (The Rhinegold), featuring Principal Characters in the Opera; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis; and a new LIBRETTO with German and English translation side-by-side.
Download or read book Wagner s Der FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER Opera Study Guide with Libretto written by Burton D. Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new OPERA STUDY GUIDE of Wagner¿s DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER (The Flying Dutchman), featuring Principal Characters in the Opera; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis; and a new LIBRETTO with German and English translation in parallel (side-by-side).
Download or read book Wagner s DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG Opera Study Guide with Libretto written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Classics Library Series. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new OPERA STUDY GUIDE of Wagner¿s DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), featuring Principal Characters in the Opera; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis; and a new LIBRETTO with German and English translation in parallel (side-by-side).
Download or read book Siegfried English National Opera Guide 28 written by Richard Wagner and published by Calder Publications Limited. This book was released on 1984 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English National 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. Wagner wanted Siegfried, the third music drama in The Ring of the Nibelung, to be the most popular of the cycle. Despite its many beautiful and dramatic scenes and its vital part in the drama, it has not fulfilled its composer's aspiration: Professor Ulrich Weisstein examines why. Professor Anthony Newcomb contributes a detailed analysis of Wagner's use of leitmotifs, identifying the different purposes they fulfill. Derrick Puffett takes up the extraordinary fact that Wagner composed Tristan and Isolde and The Mastersingers of Nuremberg in the eight-year hiatus between his beginning and completion of Siegfried's second act; Puffett explores the subsequent changes in Wagner's musical imagination that enabled the composer to complete his enormous task. The thematic guide compliments those found in the other Opera Guides to The Ring Cycle.
Download or read book Wagner s TANNHAUSER Opera Study Guide and Libretto written by Burton D. Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new OPERA STUDY GUIDE of Wagner¿s TANNHAUSER, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis; and a new LIBRETTO with German and English translation in parallel (side-by-side).
Download or read book Wagner s TRISTAN und ISOLDE Opea Study Guide and Libretto written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Classics Library Series. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new OPERA STUDY GUIDE of Wagner¿s TRISTAN und ISOLDE, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis; and a new LIBRETTO with German and English translation in parallel (side-by-side).
Download or read book The Ring of the Nibelung written by Richard Wagner and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operas-The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried and Twilight of the Gods - are complete worlds, conjuring up extraordinary mythological landscapes through sound as much as staging. Wagner wrote the entire libretto before embarking on the music. Discarding the grand choruses and bravura duets central to most operas, he used the largest musical forces in the context often of only a handful of singers on stage. The words were essential: he was telling a story and making an argument in a way that required absolute attention to what was said. The libretto for The Ring lies at the heart of nineteenth century culture. It is in itself a work of power and grandeur and it had an incalculable effect on European and specifically German culture. John Deathridge's superb new translation, with notes and a fascinating introduction, is essential for anyone who wishes to get to grips with one of the great musical experiences.
Download or read book Wagner s The Valkyrie Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series written by Fisher Staff and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2001-08-15 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Wagner's THE VALKYRIE (Die Walkre), featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis by Burton D. Fisher, noted opera author and lecturer.
Download or read book Verdi s ERNANI OPERA STUDY GUIDE and LIBRETO written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new OPERA STUDY GUIDE AND LIBRETTO of Verdi's ERNANI, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; a newly translated LIBRETTO with Italian and English translation side-by-side, with Music Highlight Examples; and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis.
Download or read book The Wagner Operas written by Ernest Newman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-13 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic guide, the foremost Wagner expert of our century discusses ten of Wagner's most beloved operas, illuminates their key themes and the myths and literary sources behind the librettos, and demonstrates how the composer's style changed from work to work. Acclaimed as the most complete and intellectually satisfying analysis of the Wagner operas, the book has met with unreserved enthusiasm from specialist and casual music lover alike. Here, available for the first time in a single paperback volume, is the perfect companion for listening to, or attending, The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan and Isolde, Die Meistersinger, the four operas of the Ring Cycle, and Parsifal. Newman enriches his treatment of the stories, texts, and music of the operas with biographical and historical materials from the store of knowledge that he acquired while completing his numerous books on Wagner, including the magisterial Life of Richard Wagner. The text of The Wagner Operas is filled with hundreds of musical examples from the scores, and all the important leitmotifs and their interrelationships are made clear in Newman's lucid prose. "This is as fine an introduction as any ever written about a major composer's masterpieces. Newman outlines with unfailing clarity and astuteness each opera's dramatic sources, and he takes the student through the completed opera, step by step, with all manner of incidental insight along the way."--Robert Bailey, New York University
Download or read book Siegfried Opera in Three Acts written by Richard Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wagner s Ring in 1848 written by Richard Wagner and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1848 Richard Wagner began what would become the largest stage work of his career, the Ring of the Nibelung. In preparation for the task he composed an overview of the Nibelung myth designed to lead to a drama; he then composed the verse "libretto" Siegfried's Death. Although he abandoned the idea of a single opera on Siegfried in favor of the huge project that developed out of it in the succeeding years -- the Ring cycle -- he did consider the two early documents important enough to include them in his collected works. The present volume seeks to inform the English-speaking reader in three ways: by providing modern, reliable translations of the two Wagner texts, which are otherwise not available (the German original is provided on facing pages); by furnishing an overview of German scholarship available to Wagner and others working on the Nibelung legend in the first half of the nineteenth century; and by making available a bibliography of further reading. The volume will be useful to students of musicology, to students and historians of myth and legend, and to all Wagnerians interested in the genesis of the Ring cycle. Accessible to the general reader, it maintains scholarly rigor and provides information about materials not available in English. Edward R. Haymes is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Cleveland State University.
