📗 Libro en inglés STORY OF THE CENTURY

A PRESTO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 Gripping FINANCIAL TIMES Breathtaking SIMON CALLOW Vivid BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE A colourful and concise telling of the fascinating story behind Richard Wagner s extraordinary masterpiece Ring of the Nibelung The Ring is one of the most epic and compelling stories of the nineteenth century created by a composer who was alongside Dickens Tolstoy and Victor Hugo also one of the century s master storytellers But the story of how Wagner created the work is one full of intrigue and triumphs against unlikely odds as well as controversy due to the composer s anti semitic views and popularity with the Nazi party In Story of the Century Michael Downes combines cultural history and biography to offer this accessible and insightful introduction to The Ring and its mythology He tells the story of how and why this extraordinary masterpiece came into being why it takes the form it does why it fascinates and obsesses so many and horrifies others and why it matters