This beloved operatic work combines profound emotion and great comedy to tell the tale of a young knight and his struggle to become a Mastersinger. Wagner's only comedy, for which he wrote both the words and the music, offers an extraordinarily adept coupling of libretto and musical score. This Dover edition is a reprint of an authoritative and accessible German score from the turn of the twentieth century. It containsthe vocal partsas well as the full orchestral score for the three-act opera. English translations cover the introduction and cast lists; the rest of the text is in the...
This beloved operatic work combines profound emotion and great comedy to tell the tale of a young knight and his struggle to become a Mastersinger. Wa...
When Tristan is escorting the Irish princess to his King so he can marry her, Tristan falls in love with the wife to be and starts to meet secretly with the new queen to the anger of the King. When Tristan takes a deadly blow in a duel with the king, Isolda is called on to see if she can save her one true love.
When Tristan is escorting the Irish princess to his King so he can marry her, Tristan falls in love with the wife to be and starts to meet secretly wi...