Books written by John Louis DiGaetani
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Wagner and Suicide
Chapter 2 Der Fliegende Holländer : The Isolated Personality After writing juvenilia in his early years — Die Feen and Das Liebesverbot , plus his first early success , Rienzi , which succeeded not only at Dresden but in many other ...
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Richard Wagner: New Light on a Musical Life
Schopen- hauer had died there a short time before. It is surely significant that as he was parting from Minna in Frankfurt, his thoughts were ofSchopenhauer. The philosopher had died in 1860, the year before Wagner's Parisian disaster, ...
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Wagner Outside the Ring: Essays on the Operas, Their Performance and Their Connections with Other Arts
“History in the Arts—Descent.” The Kingdom ofArt: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893–1896. Ed. Bernice Slote. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966. _____. Letter to Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
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Richard Wagner: New Light on a Musical Life
This is a new biography of the German composer Richard Wagner, 200 years after his birth, re-examining his life in light of new documents and new sensibilities.
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The Definitive Diva: The Life and Career of Maria Callas
Maria Callas was, perhaps, the greatest opera singer of the 20th century.
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A Search for a Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights
Thirty-three leading American and British playwrights, from Robert Anderson to Paul Zindel, discuss their views on their own work and contemporary drama, and offer projections about theater for the 21st...
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Inside the Ring: Essays on Wagner’s Opera Cycle
This book, with provocative essays for both the uninitiated and the seasoned fan, examines Wagner's Ring cycle from a wide array of modern perspectives.
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Puccini the Thinker: The Composer's Intellectual and Dramatic Development
'Puccini the Thinker' traces Puccini's development as an opera composer and thinker. The subject is the composer's ideas as they appear in his operas. The book, written for the operagoer...
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Puccini the Thinker: The Composer's Intellectual and Dramatic Development
'Puccini the Thinker' traces Puccini's development as an opera composer and thinker. The subject is the composer's ideas as they appear in his operas. The book, written for the operagoer...
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Opera and the Golden West: The Past, Present, and Future of Opera in the U.S.A.
This book also calls attention to the efforts of American composers as they continually tried to make original contributions to a foreign musical form.