Aida
Andrea Chénier
La Bohème
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Carlisle Floyd
Kiri Te Kanawa
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Giacomo Puccini
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Turandot
Un Ballo in Maschera
Giuseppe Verdi
Richard Wagner

There are hundreds of books on Richard Wagner and Der Ring des Nibelungen available. This is a list of the top recommendations by experts and noted authorities.

The Perfect Wagnerite : A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring George Bernard, Shaw / Paperback / Published 1967; $5.56

Richard Wagner : The Man, His Mind and His Music Robert W. Gutman / Paperback / Published 1990; $10.36

Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination (Texts and Contexts Series) Marc A. Weiner / Paperback / 448 pages / Published 1997; $16.00

Card catalog description:

This book addresses one of the most hotly contested debates in contemporary cultural life: the question of how anti-Semitism figures in the operas of Richard Wagner. Until now, scholars have generally acknowledged Wagner's anti-Semitism but have argued that it is irrelevant to the operas themselves. Marc A. Weiner challenges that traditional view by asserting that anti-Semitism is a crucial, pervasive feature in Wagner's operas. Weiner argues that the operas exemplify and contribute to a vast collection of images that are patently anti-Semitic - and that were readily recognized as such by nineteenth-century German audiences. These images were associated particularly with the body. Through a careful examination of Wagner's music, libretti, and stage directions, Weiner reconstructs iconographies of corporeal images - iconographies of the eye, voice, smell, gait, and sexuality - that were essential to the operas and were "associated with anti-Semitism and the longing for an imagined German community."

The Wagner Operas Ernest Newman / Paperback / Published 1991; $18.36

Wagner's Ring : Turning the Sky Round M. Owen Lee / Paperback / Published 1994; $8.00

Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt Richard Wagner, et al / Hardcover / Published 1968; $79.95

Correspondence of Wagner and Lizst Richard Wagner / Hardcover / Published 1970; $32.25

I Saw the World End : A Study of Wagner's Ring Deryck Cooke / Paperback / Published 1992; (Publisher Out Of Stock)

In Search of Wagner (Verso Modern Classics) Theodor Adorno, Theodore Adorno / Paperback / Published 1991; $19.00

Who's Who and What's What in Wagner Jonathan Lewsey / Hardcover / Published 1997; $68.95

Who's Who in Wagner : An A-To-Z Look at His Life and Work Phillip Hodson / Hardcover / Published 1984; (Publisher Out Of Stock)

The Diary of Richard Wagner, 1865-1882 : The Brown Book Richard Wagner / Published 1980; (Hard to Find)

Mozart, Weber, and Wagner; with various essays on musical subjects Hector Berlioz; (Hard to Find)

The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence Published 1985; (Hard to Find)

The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche / Published 1985; (Hard to Find)

Pro and Contra Wagner Thomas Mann / Published 1985; (Hard to Find)

Reflections on Wagner's Ring John Culshaw / Published 1976; (Hard to Find)

Richard Wagner : The Bayreuth Letters Richard Wagner / Published 1972; (Hard to Find)

Ring Resounding John Culshaw / Published 1967; (Hard to Find)

Ring Resounding John Culshaw / Published 1987; (Hard to Find)

The Life of Richard Wagner Ernest Newman / Hardcover / Published 1992; (Publisher Out Of Stock)

Major Critical Essays : The Quintessence of Ibsenism, the Perfect Wagnerite, the Sanity of Art George Bernard Shaw / Hardcover / Published 1974; $79.00

Personal Recollections of Wagner Angelo, Neumann / Hardcover / Published 1976; $60.00

Richard Wagner : A Biography Derek Watson / Hardcover / Published 1980; $33.56

Wagner's 'Ring' and Its Symbols; The Music and the Myth. Robert Donington / Hardcover / Published 1974; (Publisher Out Of Stock)

The Diary of Richard Wagner, 1865-1882 : The Brown Book Richard Wagner / Published 1980; (Hard to Find)

Pro and Contra Wagner Thomas Mann / Published 1985; (Hard to Find)

Thoughts out of season Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; (Hard to Find)

At the Grave of Richard Wagner Kronos Quartet / Audio CD / Published 1993; $8.98 + $0.85 special surcharge

At the Grave of Richard Wagner Kronos Quartet / Audio Cassette / Published 1994

Heroic Legends of the North : An Introduction to the Nibelung and Dietrich Cycles (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol 1403) Edward R. Haymes and Susann T. Samples / Garland Pub / Hardcover / Published 1996; $38.00

Booknews, Inc., 11/01/96:

Overviews the themes, characters, and literary origins of the Germanic Nibelung and Dietrich legends, providing information on the texts themselves and bibliographical guidance for students and general readers. Traces the roots of the legends in the last centuries of the Roman Empire, offering synopses of each work in the legend cycles, and discusses key theoretical issues such as the theory of oral composition. Cites English and German secondary sources.

Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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