Exploring Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung (Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series)

A convenient and comprehensive pocket-sized GUIDE to Wagner's THE RING of the NIBELUNG cycle, featuring historical background, political, social, and economic forces which nurtured and inspired the music drama, operatic structural innovations made by Wagner, and the composer's interpretation of the inner meaning of the dramas. A companion to the OPERA JOURNEYS MINI GUIDE SERIES for the individual music dramas: THE RHINEGOLD, THE VALKYRIE, SIEGFRIED, and THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS.