Description: This biography of Minna Planer, Richard Wagner's wife of 30 years, reveals her as a self-assured woman and artist who was vital to her husband's creative life.
Brief description: EVA RIEGER is professor emeritus in historical musicology at the University of Bremen.
Review Quotes: Given their posthumous reputations, Rieger is forced to tell much of Minna's life story through first-hand accounts of what we know of her husband's travails. Nevertheless, it's a compelling, well-balanced read with plenty of psychological insight into the protagonists' minds. Beautifully illustrated, Wagnerians will find much to discover as they observe the man from the fresh perspective of his long-suffering, but for once thoroughly three-dimensional spouse.-- "LIMELIGHT"