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'Siegfried' is the Second Day in Wagner's tetralogy 'The Nibelung's Ring'; the world premiere took place in Bayreuth in 1876 as part of the opening ceremony of the festival theatre. In contrast to the...

Completed in 1845, Richard Wagner's romantic opera 'Tannhäuser and the Singing Contest at the Wartburg' pursues the path taken by 'The Flying Dutchman' a few years before: from number opera to through...

Tristan und Isolde ist in der inneren Dimension schwer zu messen. Kein anderes der Musikdramen Wagners ist so völlig auf ein einziges Thema konzentriert, verzichtet so weitgehend auf theatralische Han...

This book, a comprehensive introduction to Richard Wagner's opera 'The Valkyrie', the first evening of the tetralogy 'The Nibelung's Ring', contains the complete libretto with numerous music examples....

'The Nibelung's Ring', this daring cycle of four full-length music dramas, kept the librettist and the composer busy for more than twenty years, from the first ideas until its completion. What was new...

'All Women do the Same, or The School for Lovers', this is how Lorenzo da Ponte, the librettist of Mozart's 'Dramma giocoso', entitled his libretto. Ever since the world premiere of 'Così fan tutte' i...

Mozart's 'Don Giovanni', one of the most frequently played and most popular operas since its world premiere in Prague in 1787, is based on the old familiar figure of the 'womanizer'. The character of...

This comprehensive introduction to Mozart's 'Abduction from the Seraglio' contains the complete libretto with numerous music examples. Kurt Pahlen comments on the work with music-related references as...

'La folle journée ou La mariage de Figaro' is the title of a stage play by Pierre Augustin Caron, called Beaumarchais, which caused a sensation in Paris at the beginning of the 1780s. In this 'sequel'...

This comprehensive introduction to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' contains the complete libretto with numerous music examples. Kurt Pahlen comments on the work with music-related referenc...

Mit dem durchschlagenden Erfolg der 'Entführung' begann Mozarts Opernproduktion für die Bühnen Wiens: Die Oper wurde das beliebteste Bühnenstück zu seinen Lebzeiten. 'Figaros Hochzeit' markierte den B...

The opera, probably the most spectacular and demanding of all art forms, undoubtedly holds its very own fascination for the opera-goer, and many a one of them may ask him-/herself how the often magnif...

This opera guide is addressed to children and young people, but also to their parents and relatives. It contains concise comprehensible information on all important aspects of the opera. This edition...

Rodion Shchedrin is regarded as one of the most important composers of Russian modernism. In his autobiographical notes, he looks back on an eventful life, offering fascinating glimpses behind the sce...

What a music that must be, music always played when Henry Maske entered the boxing ring, music played at Michael Jackson's stage shows, music still used for charity events and commercials? Understood...

In den sechziger Jahren gab es in ganz Europ für viele Künstler der klassischen Musik nur eine Adresse für Schallplatteneinspielungen: EMI/His Master's Voice an der Abbey Road in London. Und der Grund...

Ohne Übertreibung darf man Karl May den erfolgreichsten deutschen Schriftsteller nennen. Über seine Person weiß man gleichwohl wenig, ebenso fristen sein mystisches Spätwerk und seine Gedichte ein Sch...