Title: The Metropolis case
Description: From the smoky music halls of 1860s Paris to the tumbling skyscrapers of twenty-first-century New York, a sweeping tale of passion, music, and the human heart's yearning for connection. An unlikely quartet is bound together across centuries and continents by the strange and spectacular history of Richard Wagner's masterpiece opera Tristan and Isolde.
Subjects: Opera, Immortality, Fiction, Fiction, general, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general
People: Richard Wagner (1813-1883)