Wagner's Mature Music-Dramas (Tristan and Isolde, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and Parsifal) in Light of Their Allegorical Relationship to The Ring of the Nibelung

Scholars devoted to analysis of Richard Wagners operas and music-dramas have long noted his numerous comparisons between their characters and plots in his letters, essays, and recorded remarks. Yet no one has previously attempted to assess their implications for our systematic understanding of his art. Following Heises allegorical interpretation of Wagners Ring of the Nibelung, The Wound That Will Never Heal (Academica Press, 2021), this second installment of the authors lifelong Wagner project will examine Wagners mature music-dramas Tristan and Isolde, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and Parsifal in light of their relationship to the Ring as understood through Heises allegorical interpretation. It will demonstrate how Wagners Ring is a master-myth which can make sense of these other mature music-dramas as never before.