Richard Wagner, Parsifal

by Lucy Beckett

Book Overview

In this book Lucy Beckett gives a comprehensive account of Wagner's last and strangest opera. The literary sources of this work, its many links with Wagner's life and thought, its libretto, music and stage history, are all thoroughly examined. There is a full commentary, with extensive quotation, on the work's critical history, and finally, a fresh assessment of its place in the Wagner canon and of its unique quality as a music drama that is both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521296625
• ISBN13: 9780521296625
• Release Date: August 1981
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"