21 Scripts from his intermission radio talks

First edition: 1995
Published by Oxford University Press

Second edition: 2002, 2004 “Revised and Enlarged”
Published by Limelight editions

Dedicated to Richard Mohr

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Includes the following opera commentaries:

• IDOMENEO A new kind of Opera

• RIGOLETTO When Verdi’s fathers sing
• SIMON BOCCANEGRA Patterns of light
• UN BALLO IN MASCHERA Chiaroscuro
• DON CARLO Everything in this drama is true
• AIDA Six prophetic trumpets
• OTELLO The heart of darkness

• DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER The phantom lover and the eternal feminine
• TANNHAUSER You use works of art to see your soul
• LOHENGRIN One brief shining moment
• DIE MEISTERSINGER Songbirds and Saints
• PARSIFAL Who is the Grail?

• FAUST The matter of Melody
• LES TROYENS Unanswered questions
• Les CONTES D’HOFFMANN Six characters in search of a poet
• MANON Phrases Massenetiques

• LA BOHEME A charming life and a terrible one
• TURANDOT The maturing male and the voracious virago

• ELEKTRA That is what fiction means
• DER ROSENKAVALIER A moment beyond time
• DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN Love that colours and transforms

The 2002 and 2004 Revised Editions also include:

• LE NOZZE DI FIGARO A man for all centuries
• CARMEN The Devil’s motif