This book, addressed to both specialists and the opera-going public, brings together a team of acknowledged authorities from round the world to examine the perf

Designed as a companion volume to 2006's Inside the Ring, which focused on the four operas comprising Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, this new volume

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