If you really want to know who Richard Wagner is,
The Flying Dutchman is
a good place to start. For not only is this the first opera in which
the composer began to experiment with the revolutionary musico-dramatic
ideas that would later transform opera as we know it, but it is also a
German opera of its time, with gorgeous Italianate arias and duets that
sound like they could come from Bellini or Verdi – or indeed from some
of Wagner’s German or French contemporaries.
more at the Independent
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