Prequel to the Ring of the Nibelung - How Wagner's Three Canonical Operas (the Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, and Lohengrin) Paved the Way to His Mature Music Dramas

Following his allegorical interpretation of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, this installment of Heise's Wagner project demonstrates how the composer employed key facets of the plots of The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, and Lohengrin in building the allegorical superstructure which culminated in the Ring.