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Verdi and/or Wagner

By Peter Conrad
Thames & Hudson; 384 pp. $40

In Verdi and/or Wagner, the emphasis is on the "or." The two titans were nearly exact contemporaries. Both emerged from modest provincial backgrounds to dominate the operatic life of their time, and b...

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