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Wagner, Richard - Tristan und Isolde (Overture ENO Guide)
Catalogue No: 9780714544106
Revised version of the ENO Opera Guides originally published by John Calder.
Includes original text of the libretto facing a literal English translation.
- Expert Aricles on the opera and its performance history.
- Original text of the libretto facing a literal English translation.
- Black and white pictures
- Thematic guide to the score
- Bibliography & discography
- New Paperback | 130 pp.
- ISBN: 9780714544106
- Published: 2011
‘A Landmark in Musical History’ is John Luke Rose’s title for the introduction to this extraordinary piece of theatre. It belongs to the German tradition of mystical writing, and a short note on the poem itself by Martin Swales and Timothy McFarland elucidates some of Wagner’s literary techniques. Anthony Negus, who assisted Reginald Goodall on the WNO production of Tristan und Isolde, has contributed a penetrating analysis of the musical structure of the opera, while Patrick Carnegy assesses the remarkable solutions to staging an opera which some argue is best experienced with your back to the performers.
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'Brilliantly produced and superb value.' Sunday Times
'All these will provide the new opera-goer with food for thought.' Daily Telegraph
'Wholehearted recommendation of this valuable new series.' TLS
English National Opera Guide Number 6