Broude Brothers. New York. Reprinted from the 1896 London edition by arrangement with Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. Printed in U.S.A., 1966
Translated by William Ashton Ellis, editor of "The Meister", etc.
Translator's Preface
To the German Army before Paris (Poem)
A Capitulation
Reminiscences of Auber
Beethoven
The Destiny of Opera
Actors and Singers
The Rendering of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Letters and Minor Essays:
I. Letter to an Actor
II. A Glance at the German Operatic Stage of To-day
III. Letter to an Italian Friend on the Production of “Lohengrin” at Bologna
IV. To the Burgomaster of Bologna
V. To Friedrich Nietzsche
VI. On the name “Nusikdrama”
VII. Prologue to a Reading of “Die Götterdämmerung” before a select audience in Berlin
Bayreuth:
I. Final Report on the Fates and Circumstances that attended the execution of the Stage-festival-play “Der Ring des Nibelungen” down to the founding of Wagner-societies
II. The Festival-playhouse at Bayreuth, with an account of the Laying of its Foundation-stone