Stories from Wagner

Content

Introduction 

The Ring of the Curse     

                  I. The Rhine-Gold  .

                  II. The War Maidens   

                  III. Siegfried the Fearless          

                  IV. The Downfall of the Gods  

Parsifal the Pure  

Lohengrin the Swan Knight  

Tannhauser the Knight of Song

The Master Singers  

Rienzi the Last of the Tribunes  

The Flying Dutchman  

Tristan and Isolde



About the author

Joseph Walker McSpadden attended UT beginning in November 1893. He graduated in 1899 and moved to New York. He and two other UT alumni (Marshall Lawrence Havey and John S. Coppers) organized a U.T.N.Y. luncheon group in 1899, which was expanded to become the Tennessee Society of New York in 1905.



McSpadden was a prolific author. He is best known for his Robin Hood (1891) and succeeding tales of Robin Hood. Among his other publications are Opera Synopses (1920), Operas and Musical Comedies, Light Opera and Musical Comedy (1936), Shakespearian Synopses (1923), The Fables of Aesop, Based on the Texts of L'Estrange and Croxall (1903), Stories from Great Operas (1923), Alps: As Seen by the Poets (1912), California: A Romantic Story for Young People (1926), Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers (1924), Famous Ghost Stories (1918), Famous Psychic Stories (1920), Famous Sculptors of America (1924), Synopses of Dickens's Novels (1909), The Book of Holidays (1935), and Storm Center: A Novel about Andy Johnson (1947).