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WAGNER DUETS, Peter Bassett.

“Nothing but duets!” Originally published in a Deutsche Grammophon 2-CD set: Wagner Duets, DG 480 7308. Looking back at Tristan und Isolde twenty years after its composition, Wagner told his wife Cosima: “My model was Romeo and Juliet – nothing but duets!” He was invoking Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi which he had conducted […]

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