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Ring of the Nibelung
Ring of the Nibelung
Author: Richard Wagner
"Andrew Porter's utterly natural, often poetic, faithfully rendered English text should be a revelation...The immediacy of instant comprehension gives the entire drama an added dimension."?The New York Times Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rhe...  more » and Gotterdammerung) and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas, translated by Andrew Porter, is an intricate system of metric patterns, imaginative metaphors and alliteration, combining to produce the music in text.
ISBN-13: 9780712907538
ISBN-10: 071290753X
Publication Date: 9/21/1976
Pages: 396
Edition: Limited edition
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Publisher: Dawson Publishing,Folkestone
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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