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1. Ernest Newman

   Author of The Wagner Operas, Wagner as man & artist, Stories of the Great Operas and Their Composers
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2. English National Opera

   Author of English National Opera Guide : Wagner : Parsifal, English National Opera Guide : Wagner : The Rhinegold : Das Rheingold, English National Opera Guide : Verdi : Otello
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3. Richard Wagner

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4. Barry Millington

   Author of Wagner, The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas, The Wagner Compendium: A Guide to Wagner's Life and Music
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5. Bryan Magee

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6. George Bernard Shaw

   Author of The Perfect Wagnerite
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7. Robert Donington

   Author of Wagner's Ring and Its Symbols, Opera and its Symbols: The Unity of Words, Music and Staging
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8. Philip Kitcher

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9. Charles Osborne

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10. Peter Conrad

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11. John Culshaw

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12. Stewart Spencer

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13. Deryck Cooke

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14. Joseph Kerman

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15. William Berger

    Author of Wagner Without Fear: Learning to Love--and Even Enjoy--Opera's Most Demanding Genius, Verdi With a Vengeance: An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera, Puccini Without Excuses: A Refreshing Reassessment of the World's Most Popular Composer
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16. Ethan Mordden

    Author of Opera Anecdotes, A Guide to Opera Recordings
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17. John Louis Digaetani

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18. Amanda Holden

    Author of The Penguin Opera Guide
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19. Frederic Spotts

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20. Philip Gossett

    Author of The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera: Rossini, Donizetti, Bellin I, Verdi, Puccini, Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
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21. John Deathridge

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22. Sir Denis Forman

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23. Sófocles

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24. Theodor W. Adorno

    Author of In Search of Wagner
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25. Thomas May

    Author of Decoding Wagner: An Invitation to His World of Music Drama (includes 2 CDs)
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26. András Batta

    Author of Opera: Composers, Works, Performers
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27. Euripides

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28. Fred Plotkin

    Author of Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera
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29. John Hamilton Warrack

    Author of Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, The Oxford Dictionary of Opera
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30. Linda Hutcheon

    Author of Opera: The Art of Dying
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31. Alex Ross

    Author of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
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32. Johanna Fiedler

    Author of Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera
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33. Paul Gruber

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34. Matthew Boyden

    Author of The Rough Guide to Opera
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35. Michael Tanner

    Author of Wagner
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36. Derek Watson

    Author of Richard Wagner: A Biography
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37. Aeschylus

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38. Charles Rosen

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39. William Fense Weaver

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40. Giacomo Puccini

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41. J.K. Holman

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42. Carolyn Abbate

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43. Hugh Vickers

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44. R. Larry Todd

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45. Joachim Köhler

    Author of Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans
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46. Phil G. Goulding

    Author of Ticket to the Opera: Discovering and Exploring 100 Famous Works, History, Lore, and Singers, with Recommended Recordings
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47. Nike Wagner

    Author of The Wagners: The Dramas of a Musical Dynasty
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48. Jean Shinoda Bolen

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49. Gottfried Wagner

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50. Leonard Bernstein

    Author of The Infinite Variety of Music
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