I. "You haven't been playing the organ, have you?": my way to Wagner

II. Wagner;s cosmos

1. Wagalaweia and Hojotoho!: a first approach to Wagner's music drama

2. "If you weren't all such tedious fellows": Wagner and his conductors

3. Cobwebs, solemnity, sausage salad: Bayreuth and its Green Hill

4. A very German subject: the ideological aspect

5. "If we want Wagner, then Wagner is what we want", or: what makes a good performance?

6. Money or love: Wagner for beginners

III. Wagner's music drama

1. Die Feen (The Fairies): a first look inside Wagner's botanizing drum

2. A sin of Wagner's youth and a hymn to Carnival: Das Liebesverbot oder Die Novize von Palermo (The ban on love, or The novice of Palermo)

3. Defeating grand opera with its own weapons: Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the last of the Tribunes)

4. Plain, meagre, gloomy?: Der fliegende Holländer, oder der Fluch des Willens (The flying Dutchman, or The curse of the will)

5. Tannhäuser und der S̈ngerkrieg auf der Wartburg (Tannhäuser and the singers' contest on the Wartburg): the art of moderation and Wagner's failure to achieve it

6. A floodlight on the world beyond, love without regret: Lohengrin

7. Tristan und Isolde: the chord of life

8. A plea for tolerance: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The mastersingers of Nuremberg)

9. Money, power or love? Painting the world in sunset colours: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The ring of the Nibelung)

10. An anti-Tristan composed in violet ink: Parsifal.