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Das Rheingoldby Richard Wagner , Rudolph SaborISBN 0714836516 (0-7148-3651-6)
Softcover, Phaidon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Das Rheingold'Book summary:Das Rheingold is the shortest opera Richard Wagner wrote. It comprises just one act, and it's technically just the curtain raiser for the main event: the sordid family history of Wotan's children, the Walsungs, as it coincides with the end of the world by fire and flood. Das Rheingold sets things in motion, as the dwarf Alberich steals the Rhine gold from its watery home, renounces love, and forges the gold into a ring of power. The chief god, Wotan, covets the ring and schemes to get it, but the Nibelung puts a curse on it; it is quickly covered with the blood of the giant Fasolt, coldly slain by his brother Fafner, who prefers gold to love. The gods move into Valhalla, the home built for them by the giants and paid for with the Nibelung's gold, but their doom is now ordained.
In this translation, Rudolph Sabor does for Wagner's epic libretto what John Ciardi did for Dante's visions of hell, purgatory, and heaven: he turns it into readable, understandable English while maintaining most of the original's meter and alliterations. Sabor's version would be admirable for this alone, but he has done his readers the additional favor of noting where leitmotifs occur and offering sidebars on the music and action. [via]
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Der Ring des Nibelungenby Richard Wagner , Rudolph SaborISBN 0714836508 (0-7148-3650-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Ring des Nibelungen'Book summary:A companion volume to Richard Wagner's cycle of four epic operas. [via]
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Die Walkureby Richard Wagner , Rudolph SaborISBN 0714836524 (0-7148-3652-4)
Softcover, Phaidon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Die Walkure'Book summary:Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is the second of the four operas in Richard Wagner's Ring cycle, and the first of the early curtain, late-bedtime-length operas that inspired the term "Wagnerian" as a synonym for "extremely long." In it we meet a large quantity of the known offspring of the philandering head god, Wotan, including the nine Valkyries--warlike maidens who haul dead heroes to feast forever with the gods at Valhalla--and Wotan's twin children by a mortal woman, Siegmund and Sieglinde. The opera opens with Siegmund, defeated in battle, rushing into the first shelter he finds. It turns out to be the unhappy home of Hunding and Sieglinde. Sieglinde is Siegmund's twin sister, but that doesn't stop them from declaring their love and running off together, right after Siegmund pulls out the sword that their father left stuck in the tree that grows in the middle of the great hall. Brunnhilde, the chief Valkyrie, is first ordered by their father to help Siegmund, but he has to change his mind when Fricka, the goddess of marriage, points out the irregularity of the relationship. Brunnhilde admires Siegmund and tries to save him, but has to settle for saving the pregnant Sieglinde; as a reward for Sieglinde's audacity, Wotan puts her to sleep on a rock surrounded by fire that only a man who has never known fear can penetrate.
Rudolph Sabor's version of the libretto does a wonderful job of capturing Wagner's rhythms and idiom and bringing the whole into accessible English. This translation--which also includes suggestions for further study and comments on the action--would be a useful companion to listening to a recording of the Ring, because it points out when the leitmotifs occur. [via]
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The Flying Dutchman: The German Libretto with a Line-By-Line English Singing Versionby Richard Wagner , Heinrich Heine, Brian Large, Peter ButlerISBN 0715609386 (0-7156-0938-6)
Hardcover, Duckworth
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Gotterdammerungby Richard Wagner , Rudolph SaborISBN 0714836540 (0-7148-3654-0)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Parsifalby Richard WagnerISBN 071454079X (0-7145-4079-X)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr
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The Rhinegold/Das Rheingoldby Richard WagnerISBN 0714540781 (0-7145-4078-1)
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Richard Wagner Boxed Setby Richard Wagner , Rudolph SaborISBN 0714837024 (0-7148-3702-4)
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Siegfriedby Richard WagnerISBN 0714540404 (0-7145-4040-4)
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Tannhauserby Richard WagnerISBN 0714541478 (0-7145-4147-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tannhauser'Book summary:[via]The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detailwith many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times. The complete libretto is included in both the original language and in a modern singing translationexcept where the opera was written in English. Each has a thematic guide to the most important musical themes in musical notation and each guide is lavishly illustrated. They also contain a bibliography and a discography which is updated at each reprint. The ENO guides are widely regarded as the best series of their kind and excellent value.More editions of Tannhauser:
Twilight of the Godsby Richard WagnerISBN 0714540633 (0-7145-4063-3)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr
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