{"product_id":"richard-wagner-isbn-9780714836508","title":"Richard Wagner","description":"The companion volume to the \u003ci\u003eRing \u003c\/i\u003elibretto translations by Rudolph Sabor provides a guide through the labyrinth of the \u003ci\u003eRing\u003c\/i\u003e, clarifying its literary and musical idiom and significance. It offers essays, surveys and summaries - designed to inform, enlighten, and occassionally, provoke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA biography of Richard Wagner's colourful life precedes an essay on the myriad mythological sources that inspired the opera cycle. How the \u003ci\u003eRing \u003c\/i\u003ecame about, and what it can be taken to mean, are considered in the essay 'The Genesis of the Ring'. Wagner's complex use of the leitmotif - his musical 'labels' of people, emotions, events - is clarified, and Sabor introduces the reader to both the characters and the story of the \u003ci\u003eRing\u003c\/i\u003e. A history of 120 years of performances, at Bayreuth and elsewhere, is copiously illustrated. Appendices include a full bibliography, discography, videography, and a short listing of Wagner's orchestral forces. The volume concludes with a list of all the leitmotifs in the \u003ci\u003eRing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFour other books are available in this series, which each have a translation and commentary to one of the four operas in the \u003ci\u003eRing \u003c\/i\u003ecycle. The books can be enjoyed individually or as a series; either way they will equip the Wagner enthusiast with a fund of information to make the \u003ci\u003eRing\u003c\/i\u003e journey more rewarding.","brand":"Phaidon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891989344485,"sku":"NP9780714836508","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/4616a2d7-8b4e-43f0-88c7-adbc01814998.jpg?v=1767868701","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/richard-wagner-isbn-9780714836508","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}