Description: Wagner, Richard TRISTAN AND ISOLDE 1st Edition 1st Printing 1965 Milton Glaser. The year 1965 marks the 100th anniversary of the first performance in Munich of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. This opera has long been recognized as one of the supreme masterpieces in the literature of music, and it is certainly one of the most significant in terms of its influence on all subsequent music. But one should also realize the importance of Wagner's text for Tristan as a landmark in Romantic drama. It is, for in-stance, cited in Francis Fergusson's Idea of a Theater as a "crucial instance of the art of drama, because it is comparable in depth and artistic integrity with the Neoclassic theater and with the Greeks . . . it is the celebration of a mystical motive .. the mystic obedience to passion itself." This new bilingual edition of Wagner's dramatic poem includes the original German text and a splendid new translation that is intended to be sung as well as read, and will, therefore, be invaluable to students of both music and litera-ture. Stewart Robb, who has made this special translation, also translated Wagner's entire Ring of the Nibelung for Dutton Paperbacks and prepared the official English librettos of Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin, and Parsifal used by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Cover by graphic designer Milton Glaser
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Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Signed: No
Publisher: Dutton
Subject: Opera
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1965
Language: English
Illustrator: Milton Glaser
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Richard Wagner
Region: North America
Topic: Music
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
