Book Description
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, one of the world's best-loved operas, now joins the incredibly popular Black Dog Opera Library. The perfect listening/reading combination, this book/CD package includes a world-class recording of the complete opera along with a full-color 144-page guide featuring the libretto, history, a synopsis and more. THE FLYING DUTCHMAN spotlights world-renowned performers Peter Seiffert and Pinchas Steinberg. The book also details the life and work of the composer, the careers of the most famous and talented performers of all time and the nuances of the operas themselves.
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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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