The famous (or infamous -, depending on how you look at it) Ferdinand Praeger book "Wagner As I knew Him" A book that Bayreuth - following Wagner's death - tried to ban (and caused to be withdrawn in Germany) and discredit. A book that may have lead to end of London's first Wagner Society - see here. In English translation. Available here in Kindle, Epub and web format. Simply click the version that you want.
Pressburger and Powell’s The Tales of Hoffmann
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So the other Pressburger and Powell film that I recently acquired is their
1951 version of Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann. There have been claims
that ...
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