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Updates of 19 Sep 2007
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Remarks on performing the opera "The Flying Dutchman."
This document reveals Wagner to be an advocate of musical-dramatic
realism, which requires the "precise correspondence of the events on the stage with the
orchestra", and the "most careful correspondence between the action and the music."
According to Wagner, Senta should "be seen not in the sense of modern, morbid sentimentality"
but as "a wholly robust Nordic girl," a "naive." Erik is a counterpart to the figure
of the Dutchman: "stormy, fierce and gloomy, like the loner." And Daland should not
slip over "into actual comedy." [from the "Wagner Handbook", p. 604]
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Faithful, all too faithful.
David Cormack's continued research into William Ashton Ellis produces regular
updates that have been incorporated into his "Faithful" article.
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Wagner
I provided a link to John F. Runciman's biography of 1913, available at Project Gutenberg.
It is part of the "Miniature Series of Musicians".
"Wagner's essays are worth reading by those who have the time and the physical and mental strenght, if only
because they reveal a man thinking on wrong lines while he is doing on right ones; but they are terribly
long-winded, and many weary pages are devoted to demonstrations of the obvious or the actually fallacious.
Mr. W. Ashton Ellis has given many years of a valuable life to translating them into something which is not
English and not German."
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Richard Wagner, Composer of Operas
I provided a link to John F. Runciman's book of 1913, available at Project Gutenberg.
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Opera Stories from Wagner
I provided a link to Florence Akin's book of 1915, available at Project Gutenberg.
Tells the Ring of the Nibelung cycle for little girls and boys.
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