Wagner Outside the Ring

Essays on the Operas, Their Performance and Their Connections with Other Arts
Herausgeber: Digaetani, John Louis

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Produktbeschreibung

Designed as a companion volume to 2006's Inside the Ring, which focused on the four operas comprising Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, this new volume features more than a dozen original essays focusing on all of Wagner's non-Ring operas. Part One looks at the individual operas, including Der Fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, and Parsifal. Part Two reveals the connections between Wagnerian opera and other arts, including dance, filmmaking, and fiction. Finally, Part Three examines Wagner's operas in performance, featuring interviews with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung and heldentenor Ben Heppner, both well-known for their Wagnerian performances. The book includes many photographs from current productions by the Metropolitan Opera and other opera companies, along with bibliographies and a discography of recommended performances.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780786434008
• ISBN-10: 0786434007
• Artikelnr.: 26204483

Autorenporträt

John Louis DiGaetani, professor emeritus of English at Hofstra University, is the author of numerous books about opera and theater.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Introduction     
Brief Chronology     
I. The Individual Operas
1. Tradition and the Individual Talent in Wagner's Juvenilia
YVONNE NILGES     
2. The Flying Dutchman: An Introduction
JAMES K. HOLMAN     
3. Deciphering The Flying Dutchman
GREGORY KERSHNER     
4. Revelation and Obfuscation: Wagner's Readings in Romanticism for
Tannhäuser
STEVEN R. CERF     
5. Romanticism in Tannhäuser and Lohengrin
BARBARA JOSEPHINE GUENTHER     
6. Don't Ask: Faith, Magic, Knowledge, and Sources in Lohengrin
LISA FEURZEIG     
7. Tristan and Ecstasy
HANS RUDOLF VAGET     
8. Infomercial in Three Acts: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
NICHOLAS VAZSONYI     
9. Relativities: Einstein, Wagner, and Die Meistersinger
JAMES K. HOLMAN     
10      Musical Characterization in Parsifal: A Study of Parsifal and
Kundry
JOHN J.H. MULLER     
II. Wagnerian Opera and the Other Arts
11. Wagner and Dance: Tannhäuser and Beyond
MARY CARGILL     
12. "The Dream Organ": Wagner as a Proto-Filmmaker
HILAN WARSHAW     
13. Wagnerian References in the Fiction of Willa Cather
RICHARD C. HARRIS     
III. Wagnerian Opera in Performance
14. Michelle DeYoung: An Interview
JOHN LOUIS DIGAETANI     
15. Ben Heppner: An Interview
JOHN LOUIS DIGAETANI     
16. The Silver Age of Wagnerian Singing
BARBARA JOSEPHINE GUENTHER     
A Manichean Conclusion
JOHN LOUIS DIGAETANI     
Appendix: Discography and Videography of Recommended Performances     
About the Contributors     
Index