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Join quizmaster Father Lee for forty-five opera related puzzles. Brain teasers include straight forward quizzes, anagrams, vertical patterns, crostics, and crossword puzzles in categories such as opera and baseball or opera at the movies.

Father Lee is internationally known for his commentaries on opera. This book gathers his best commentaries and articles on 23 works for the musical stage, from the pioneering Orpheus of Monteverdi to the forward-looking Ariadne of Richard Strauss.

Father Lee's books on the classics of Greece and Rome and made his six other volumes of opera bestsellers, Athena Sings traces the profound influence - an influence few music lovers are aware of - that Greek theatre and culture had on the most German of composers and his revolutionary musical dramas.

In Wagner and the Wonder of Art, renowned opera expert M. Owen Lee provides an introduction to the opera and an analysis that will surprise even those veteran operagoers who may not have explored the work’s intricate structure and the emotional drama at its centre.

In the course of this penetrating study, Father Lee argues that Wagner's ambivalent art is indispensable to us, life-enhancing and ultimately healing.

Father Lee wears his learning lightly, and his writing changes from chapter to chapter as it reflects, in turn, the clarity and naïve sense of wonder in Homer, the darkness and ambivalence in Virgil, the intuitive mysticism of Wagner, and the riotously imaginative exuberance of Goethe

Father Lee traces some of Wagner’s extraordinary influence for good and ill on a century of art and politicsand argues that Wagner’s ambivalent art is indispensable to us, life-enhancing and ultimately healing.