Wagner Without Fear(ISBN=9780375700545)

　　William Berger was born in California and studied Romance languages and music at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He worked for five years at the San Francisco Opera Company, where he acquired for the comapny's recorded music collection and translated for visiting performers. He has taught language at Baruch College in New York City. He contributed to James Skofield's libretto forThe Dracula Diaries, an opera with music by Robert Moran, and has just completed the libretto forThe Wolf of Gubbio, with the composer Patrick Barnes. Mr Berger currently lives in New York and is at work on a performance piece,Karajan's Wake