The following is the complete chapter about Parsifal, and more specifically its imaginary landscapes, from his book "The Book of Legendary Lands". This is the fourth book he has published with Rizzoli Ex Libris. It's not, we think, the strongest of the series - that would be "On Beauty and "On Ugliness". However, it is still more than worth your time. The chapter on Parsifal is fascinating and we think of special interest to readers here. Chapter made available by Rizzoli Ex Libris. Any copyright will be theirs.
R. Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, Salzburger Festspiele, 02.08.2026
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Susan Sontag has famously called R. Strauss’s operas “camp”, and I wonder
if Ariadne auf Naxos’s neo-rococo convoluted structure, pseudoprofound
libretto a...
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