Wagner, Richard

As Wagner’s final artistic testament, Parsifal has exerted a fascination and influence more powerful, perhaps, than any of his other works...

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Wagner called The Flying Dutchman ‘A Romantic Opera’. And so it is, in the context of the time. Retrospectively though, as the great Wagner authority Ernest Newman sees it, this opera is also the birth of ‘the modern musical drama’...

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