Richard Wagner: Parsifal: (Cambridge Opera Handbooks Series)

In this book Lucy Beckett gives a comprehensive account of Wagner's last and strangest opera. The literary sources of this work, its many links with Wagner's life and thought, its libretto, music and stage history, are all thoroughly examined. There is a full commentary, with extensive quotation, on the work's critical history, and finally, a fresh assessment of its place in the Wagner canon and of its unique quality as a music drama that is both modern and Christian.Beckett, Lucy is the author of 'Richard Wagner: Parsifal: (Cambridge Opera Handbooks Series)' with ISBN 9780521228251 and ISBN 0521228255.