"Things like this are written only for people who have good powers
of endurance (so really for nobody!)", wrote Wagner about Die
Walkure. Yet, as Geoffrey Skelton points out, the opera has enjoyed
a separate popularity and existence from the Ring Cycle. George
Gillespie shows just how the string of mythical events was
converted into a drama remarkable for its concentrated excitement
and fine construction. Barry Millington introduces the web of
motifs in the complex score. The English version, with Elizabeth
Forbes's translation of the verses that Wagner did not eventually
set to music but retained as footnotes to his published version, is
by acclaimed translator Andrew Porter. Contents: A Conflict of
Power and Love, Geoffrey Skelton; Chronology of the Composition of
'The Valkyrie'; An Introduction to the Music of 'The Valkyrie',
Barry Millington; New Myths for Old, George Gillespie; Translating
'The Ring', Andrew Porter; Die Walkure: Poem by Richard Wagner; The
Valkyrie: English translation by Andrew Porter
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