Wagner outside the Ring : essays on the operas, their performance and their connections with other arts /

Wagner outside the Ring : essays on the operas, their performance and their connections with other arts /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2009.
Description:	x, 262 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883. -- Operas. Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 -- Performances. Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883. Operas (Wagner, Richard) Performances.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7840180

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Other authors / contributors:	DiGaetani, John Louis, 1943-
ISBN:	9780786434008 (softcover : alk. paper) 0786434007 (softcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references, discography, videography, and index.
Summary:	"Part One looks at individual operas, including Der Fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Part Two reveals connections between Wagnerian opera and other arts: dance, filmmaking, written fiction. Part Three examines Wagner's operas in performance, featuring interviews with performers well-known for their Wagnerian roles. Includes photographs and discography"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Brief Chronology
I. The Individual Operas
1. Tradition and the Individual Talent in Wagner's Juvenilia
2. The Flying Dutchman: An Introduction
3. Deciphering The Flying Dutchman
4. Revelation and Obfuscation: Wagner's Readings in Romanticism for Tannhäuser
5. Romanticism in Tannhäuser and Lohengrin
6. Don't Ask: Faith, Magic, Knowledge, and Sources in Lohengrin
7. Tristan and Ecstasy
8. Infomercial in Three Acts: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
9. Relativities: Einstein, Wagner, and Die Meistersinger
10. Musical Characterization in Parsifal: A Study of Parsifal and Kundry
II. Wagnerian Opera and the Other Arts
11. Wagner and Dance: Tannhäuser and Beyond
12. "The Dream Organ": Wagner as a Proto-Filmmaker
13. Wagnerian References in the Fiction of Willa Cather
III. Wagnerian Opera in Performance
14. Michelle DeYoung: An Interview
15. Ben Heppner: An Interview
16. The Silver Age of Wagnerian Singing
A Manichean Conclusion
Appendix: Discography and Videography of Recommended Performances
About the Contributors
Index