The Flying Dutchman: Libretto - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0793555817 ISBN 13: 9780793555819

Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1986

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0793555817
• ISBN 13: 9780793555819
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36