The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagner's Der Ring...
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Der Ring des Nibelungen (redirect from The Ring of the Nibelung)
the reading of the Ring as a revolutionary drama and critique of the modern world, famously expounded by George Bernard Shaw in The Perfect Wagnerite...
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Die Walküre (redirect from The Valkyrie)
essay The Perfect Wagnerite, Bernard Shaw praises the synthesis of music and drama: "There is not ... a note in it that has any other point than the single...
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Rhinemaidens (section Role in the Ring Operas)
awarding the role to a deeper-voiced contralto or mezzo, their characters are undifferentiated. In The Perfect Wagnerite, his 1886 analysis of the Ring drama...
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The Ride of the Valkyries (German: Walkürenritt or Ritt der Walküren) is the popular name of the prelude to the first scene of the third and last act of...
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Götterdämmerung (redirect from Twilight of the Gods (opera))
of the Gods), WWV 86D, is the last of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung)...
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Richard Wagner (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
formulated at the time of his revolutionary inclinations in the 1840s. Thus, for example, George Bernard Shaw wrote in The Perfect Wagnerite (1883): [Wagner's]...
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Cosima Wagner (category People from the Province of Como)
Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-17888-9. Shaw, Bernard (1898). The Perfect Wagnerite. London: Grant Richards. OCLC 4815545. Skelton, Geoffrey, ed. (1994)...
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was the English-born wife of Siegfried Wagner, the son of Richard Wagner, and ran the Bayreuth Festival after her husband's death in 1930 until the end...
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Tristan und Isolde (category Pages using the Score extension)
that he "stood in wonder and terror" before Wagner's Tristan. In The Perfect Wagnerite, the writer and satirist George Bernard Shaw writes that Tristan was...
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