Wagner's Ring: Turning the Sky Around by M Owen Lee

Wagner's Ring: Turning the Sky Around by M Owen Lee

Commentary on and a concise lucid interpretation of the opera world's most complex masterwork expanded from the author's popular intermission talks during Met Opera broadcasts.Þ Anyone whether knowledgeable or not will profit by reading it... Þä ÊOpera QuarterlyÊ

"..one can learn a great deal about the... stories, what underlies them, and the history of the times surrounding the composition..." -- Opera News.

M. Owen Lee, a member of the Basilian Fathers, is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto, where he recently received an Outstanding Teacher Award and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Author of books of Virgil's Aeneid and Horace's Odes, he is best-known for his books on opera: First Intermissions, Wagner's Ring, A Season of Opera, and The Operagoer's Guide. Father Owen Lee is to opera what Chesterton's Father Brown was to crime detection. For 20 years Father Lee has been a beloved presence on the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday afternoon Chevron-Texaco broadcasts as an always knowledgeable guest on Opera Quiz and as an ever-insightful commentator on operatic stories, music, and themes. A classics professor in his day job, Father Lee is the author of 14 books, mostly on opera. A Book of Hours is a departure for Father Lee: a personal memoir, cast in the form of a secular breviary, that recreates a year Father Lee spent teaching at an American college campus in Rome over a quarter century ago. The book draws together in an intricate web of refracting relationships the three great loves of Father Lee's life: opera, literature, and his life and work as a priest. A Eurail pass allowed him to visit all the great opera houses of Europe, which in turn reflected on his teaching in the classroom during the week: Homer and Virgil, Whitman and Rilke. And all of this is set in the context of a personal crisis-impending hearing loss, theological doubts, and the celibate's inevitable regret, at age forty, that he cannot share his remaining years with children of his own. In this inspiring and beautifully crafted book, Father Lee shows us how religious faith and a deeply humanistic culture need never be enemies, but rather can be a source of mutual enrichment.

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ISBN 13	9780879101862
ISBN 10	0879101865
Title	Wagner's Ring: Turning the Sky Around
Author	M Owen Lee
Series	Limelight
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Limelight Editions
Year published	1994-10-01
Number of pages	124
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