National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume II: Central and Eastern Europe

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Part I German Opera in the Early 19th Century: The arias of Marzelline: Beethoven as a composer of opera, Philip Gossett
• New light(s) on Weber's Wolf's Glen scene, Anthony Newcomb
• Richard Wagner and Weber's Euryanthe, Michael C. Tusa. Part II Wagner: The Ring and the conditions of interpretation: Wagner's writing, 1848 to 1852, James Treadwell
• ...wie ein rother Faden: on the origins of 'leitmotif' as critical construct and musical practice, Thomas Grey
• The structure of the Ring and its evolution, Robert Bailey
• Dramatic recapitulation in Wagner's GAtterdAmmerung, William Kinderman
• Wagner, 'On modulation' and Tristan, Carolyn Abbate
• Death drive: Eros and Thanatos in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon
• Constructing Nuremberg: typological and proleptic communities in Die Meistersinger, Arthur Groos
• Amfortas's Prayer to Titurel and the role of D in Parsifal: the tonal spaces of the drama and the enharmonic C-flat/B, David Lewin
• Strange love or, how we learned to stop worrying and love Wagner's Parsifal, John Deathridge. Part III Russian Opera: On Ruslan and Russianness, Marina Frolova-Walker
• Mussorgsky's Boris on the stage of the Maryinsky Theater: a chronicle of the first production, Robert William Oldani
• Mussorgsky's libretti on historical themes: from the two Borises to Khovanshchina, Caryl Emerson
• The semiotics of symmetry, or Rimsky-Korsakov's operatic history lesson, Simon Morrison. Part IV Strauss and JanA!cek: Strauss and the pervert, Sander L. Gilman
• Fin-de-siecle fantasies: Elektra and the culture of supremacism, Lawrence Kramer
• JanA!cek's speech-melody theory in concept and practice, Paul Wingfield
• Evasive realism: narrative construction in Dostoyevsky's and JanA!cek's 'From the House of the Dead', Geoffrey Chew and Robert Vilain
• Name Index.