The Wagner Library2007-09-19T00:00:00ZPatrick Swinkelspatrick.swinkels@belgacom.netRemarks on performing the opera "The Flying Dutchman."tag:wagnerlibrary.be,2007-09-19:12007-09-19T00:00:00Z2007-09-19T00:00:00ZThis 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]Faithful, all too faithful.tag:wagnerlibrary.be,2007-09-19:22007-09-19T00:00:00Z2007-09-19T00:00:00ZDavid Cormack's continued research into William Ashton Ellis produces regular updates that have been incorporated into his "Faithful" article.Wagnertag:wagnerlibrary.be,2007-09-19:32007-09-19T00:00:00Z2007-09-19T00:00:00ZI 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."Richard Wagner, Composer of Operastag:wagnerlibrary.be,2007-09-19:42007-09-19T00:00:00Z2007-09-19T00:00:00ZI provided a link to John F. Runciman's book of 1913, available at Project Gutenberg.Opera Stories from Wagnertag:wagnerlibrary.be,2007-09-19:52007-09-19T00:00:00Z2007-09-19T00:00:00ZI 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.