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A music writer and commentator on the Web, radio, and print media, May argues that German composer Richard Wagner's (1813-83) operas are much richer, and therefore more artistically daring and dangerous, than the standard cliches about them suggest. He places each of his major operas in context, and considers his art as the amalgam of drama and mus
A music writer and commentator on the Web, radio, and print media, May argues that German composer Richard Wagner's (1813-83) operas are much richer, and therefore more artistically daring and dangerous, than the standard cliches about them suggest. He places each of his major operas in context, and considers his art as the amalgam of drama and mus
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