Tristan und Isolde (1999)

by Richard Wagner

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A gorgeous "opera", but when rating the text alone, one has to say it's rather dull, repetitive and full of overused alliterative verse. Wagner was above all a composer, not a poet. (

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0486229157, Paperback)

The legendary love story, and Wagner at the peak of his creative powers. Beautifully reprinted here in the authoritative edition prepared by C. F. Peters, Leipzig, ca. 1910.

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