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    The Annotated Ring Cycle: The Rhine Gold (Das Rheingold)
    The Annotated Ring Cycle: The Rhine Gold (Das Rheingold)
    The Annotated Ring Cycle: The Rhine Gold (Das Rheingold)
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    The Annotated Ring Cycle: The Rhine Gold (Das Rheingold)

    By Frederick Paul Walter and Cliff Mott

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    Richard Wagner’s magnum opus meets the celebrated translator of Jules Verne novels in this colorful and original work.

    Frederick Paul Walter makes The Rhine Gold accessible not only to scholars and opera buffs but also to fans of Tolkien, Star Wars, and Hogwarts through a dazzling new translation in lively modern English and annotations that spotlight the libretto, lyrics, and stage directions. The translation conveys Wagner’s humor, rhymes, alliterative effects, subliminal messages, and inventive tale spinning, plus it also gets the most basic ingredient right: the actual story! It highlights the motives, secrets, and plot twists— what’s really going on and what its narrative shows. The Annotated Ring Cycle includes newly created graphic-novel style illustrations that visually represent the storyline alongside full color photos of classic artwork by Arthur Rackham, Howard Pyle, Aubrey Beardsley, the 1876 costume and set designs, and much more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRowmanLittlefield
    Release dateJan 15, 2021
    ISBN9781538136690
    The Annotated Ring Cycle: The Rhine Gold (Das Rheingold)

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