So Big It was the opera that

It was the opera that most of the post-Wagnerians used to build upon

life aboard ship

which he reported in his groundbreaking 1865 paper

A helpful four-part appendix includes a glossary

The Munich plates were struck for the most part from the original wood blocks then in the collection of the Library of the University of Munich

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