The Wagnerian Romances

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Gertrude Hall Brownell. The Wagnerian Romances

The Wagnerian Romances

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PARSIFAL

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THE RHINE-GOLD

THE VALKYRIE

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II

III

SIEGFRIED

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II

III

THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

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II

III

THE MASTER-SINGERS OF NUREMBERG

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II

III

TRISTAN AND ISOLDE

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II

III

LOHENGRIN

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II

TANNHÄUSER

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II

III

THE FLYING DUTCHMAN

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Gertrude Hall Brownell

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Loge is in all the following scene Wotan's very active vizier, furnishing the invention and carrying out the stratagems. Wotan, except to the eye, takes the background and has little to say; but as the blue of his mantle and the fresh chaplet on his locks strike the eye refreshingly in the fire-reddened cave, so his voice, with echoes in it of the noble upper world, comes like gusts of sweet air.

Loge sets the cowering dwarf on his feet and by artful questions gets the whole story from him of the ring and the Nibelungs' woe. About the Tarnhelm, too, Mime tells Loge. At the recollection of the stripes he has suffered, he rubs his back howling. The gods laugh. That gives Mime the idea that these strangers must be of the great. He is in his turn questioning them, when he hears Alberich's bullying voice approaching. He runs hither and thither in terror and calls to the strangers to look to themselves, Alberich is coming! Wotan quietly seats himself on a stone to await him.

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