Description |
xiii, 302 pages : music, portrait ; 24 cm |
Note |
"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--Jacket flap. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-282) and index. |
Contents |
A few beginnings. Wagner lives : issues in autobiography ; "Pale" Senta : female sacrifice and the desire for Heimat ; Wagner the progressive : another look at Lohengrin -- Der Ring des Nibelungen. Fairy tale, revolution, prophecy : preliminary evening: Das Rheingold ; Symphonic mastery or moral anarchy? : first day: Die Walküre ; Siegfried hero : second day: Siegfried ; Finishing the end : third day: Götterdämmerung -- The elusiveness of tragedy. Don Carlos and Götterdämmerung : two operatic endings and Walter Benjamin's Trauerspiel ; Wagner's Greeks, and Wieland's too -- Tristan und Isolde. Dangerous fascinations ; Public and private life : reflections on the genesis of Tristan and Isolde and the Wesendock Lieder ; Postmortem on Isolde -- Mature polemics. Strange love, or, how we learned to stop worrying and love Parsifal ; Mendelssohn and the strange case of the (lost) Symphony in C ; Unfinished symphonies -- Operatic futures. Configurations of the new ; Wagner and beyond. |
Subject |
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Opera -- 19th century.
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Opera. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
ISBN |
9780520254534 alkaline paper |
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0520254538 alkaline paper |
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