Wagner and the Art of the TheatreThe production of Wagner's operas is fiercely debated. In this groundbreaking stage history Patrick Carnegy vividly evokes the--often scandalous--great productions that have left their mark not only on our understanding of Wagner but on modern theatre as a whole. He examines the way in which Wagner himself staged his works, showing that the composer remained dissatisfied with even the best of his productions. |
Contents
Wagner and the theatre of the early nineteenth century | 3 |
The art of the future by royal command | 46 |
Staging the Ring at Bayreuth | 69 |
Parsifal and beyond | 107 |
Part II | 133 |
The inheritors Cosima and Siegfried Wagner Gustav Mahler and Alfred Roller | 135 |
Adolphe Appia the opened eye of the score | 175 |
Wagner in Russia 18901940 | 208 |
Part III | 261 |
Wieland Wagner opera as mystery play | 263 |
The political imperative | 310 |
Our uncomfortable contemporary | 354 |
Notes | 397 |
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