The Flying Dutchman (English National Opera Guide): No. 12 - Softcover

Wagner, Richard; Pountney, David

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9780714539201: The Flying Dutchman (English National Opera Guide): No. 12

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714539201 ISBN 13: 9780714539201

Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd, 1982

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The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detail--with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times. The complete libretto is included in both the original language and in a modern singing translation--except where the opera was written in English. Each has a thematic guide to the most important musical themes in musical notation and each guide is lavishly illustrated. They also contain a bibliography and a discography which is updated at each reprint. The ENO guides are widely regarded as the best series of their kind and excellent value.

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Review:

"Brilliantly produced and superb value." --"Sunday Times"

"Brilliantly produced and superb value." "Sunday Times""

"Brilliantly produced and superb value." --Sunday Times

"All these will provide the new operagoer with food for thought." --Daily Telegraph

"Wholehearted recommendation of this valuable new series." --TLS

From the Back Cover:

Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles and the complete text of each opera in English and the original. The furious energy and melodic vigour of the The Flying Dutchman were not appreciated by its first audiences; John Warrack, the leading authority on German Romantic opera, traces its origins in the taste of Horror Romanticism and in tuneful opera comique. John Deathridge's lively musical commentary makes many original points about the score and the drama as Wagner conceived them. Wagner's own instructions to performers and his programme note about the overture are included (in a new translation) to illustrate how he thought opera would work on stage. William Vaughan, author of studies of German Romantic painters, reviews the importance of the myth to artists at that time and suggests that Wagner reclaimed the legend of Romanticism. The new English translation was made by David Pountney for English National Opera.

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