New edition
Wagner’s Parsifal
The journey of a soul
Peter Bassett
PB 192 PP 230 x 150 ILLUS ISBN 9781862548060
$34.95 Arts / Opera Wakefield Press
Parsifal was Richard Wagner’s
last opera, and many consider it his most beautiful and moving
work. Peter Bassett, author of the highly successful A Ring
for the Millennium, has made a special study of Parsifal,
looking particularly at the relationship between Wagner’s
sources and his text and identifying important thematic connections
with other works, notably Der Ring des Nibelung.
This guide – which includes a translation
of the libretto – will be invaluable to those new to Parsifal,
but will also provide fresh insights for readers who are already
familiar with Wagner’s final work. This new edition is illustrated
with historical photographs and a new format.
Related titles:
The
Nibelung’s Ring
Richard
Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde