The Annotated Ring Cycle: The Rhine Gold (Das Rheingold)

The Annotated Ring Cycle. It's accessible, colorful, and geared to a wide readership-not only scholars and opera buffs but fans of Tolkien, Star Wars, and Hogwarts. Each volume in the series contains the follow:

• A new, complete translation in lively modern English that conveys Wagner's humor, rhymes, alliterative effects, subliminal messages, and inventive tale spinning.
• Focus on the cycle's storyline... its libretto, lyrics, and stage directions... motives, secrets, and plot twists... what's really going on... what its narrative shows and tells.
• Hundreds of intriguing notes and public domain pix, including celebrated artwork by Arthur Rackham, Howard Pyle, Aubrey Beardsley, the 1876 costume & set designs, and much more.
• Most important are the new contemporary Graphic Novel style illustrations that visual represent an appealing connection to the Ring's storyline, set side-by-side with the classic artwork of Rackham, et al.