Tony Cooper has been working across the field of publishing and the arts world for a great number of years. He wrote on cultural matters for Eastern Counties Newspapers/Archant based in his home city of Norwich. He writes regularly on opera and admires greatly the works of Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner.
Specifically written for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Wagner described Parsifal as ‘ein Bühnenweihfestspiel’ (A Festival Play for the Consecration of the...