The book brings together the three central writings of Friedrich Nietzsche about his initially great friend and then no less significant opponent Richard Wagner: "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth" (1876), "The Case of Wagner" (1888), and "Nietzsche contra Wagner" (1895). The text is based on the version from the Critical Studies Edition of Nietzsche's writings edited by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari. The afterword for this new edition was contributed by the literary scholar and Wagner expert Dieter Borchmeyer, who recently garnered enthusiastic reviews with his Wagner biography "Richard Wagner. Work Life Time," published by Reclam.