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The Trouble with Wagner / Michael P. Steinberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinberg, Michael P., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen.
- Wagner, Richard.
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883--Criticism and interpretation.
- Richard Wagner.
- Ring of the Nibelung.
- music and politics.
- post-secular.
- Local Subjects:
- Richard Wagner.
- Ring of the Nibelung.
- music and politics.
- post-secular.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (151 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- In this unique and hybrid book, cultural and music historian Michael P. Steinberg combines a close analysis of Wagnerian music drama with a personal account of his work as a dramaturg on the bicentennial production of The Ring of the Nibelung for the Teatro alla Scala Milan and the Berlin State Opera. Steinberg shows how Wagner uses the power of a modern mythology to heighten music's claims to knowledge, thereby fusing not only art and politics, but truth and lies as well. Rather than attempting to separate value and violence, or "the good from the bad," as much Wagner scholarship as well as popular writing have tended to do, Steinberg proposes that we confront this paradox and look to the capacity of the stage to explore its depths and implications. Drawing on decades of engagement with Wagner and of experience teaching opera across disciplines, The Trouble with Wagner is packed with novel insights for experts and interested readers alike.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. Wagnerian Songlines
- One. History and the Stage
- Two. Siegmund's Death
- Three. Bad Education
- Four. Les passions humaines
- Afterword. On Purity, Danger, and the Postsecular Moment
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780226594224
- 022659422X
- OCLC:
- 1065537438
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