New,Wagner in Context

Contents

• Part I . Place:
• 1. Paris Katharine Ellis;
• 2. Dresden Thomas S. Grey;
• 3. Zurich and Lucerne Chris Walton;
• 4. Italy Ellen Lockhart;
• 5. London Barry Millington;
• 6. Bayreuth as city: a wagnerian chronology Sven Friedrich;
• 7. America Leon Botstein;
• 8. Spain in the cosmos of Richard Wagner Dieter Borchmeyer;
• Part II . People:
• 9. Franz Liszt Joanne Cormac;
• 10. Nietzsche and Wagner: the logic of contradiction Federico Celestini;
• 11. Wagner, schopenhauer and the world as a phantasmagoria Robert Wicks;
• 12. Assessing wilhelmine schröder-devrient: influence, genre, and voice Anno Mungen;
• 13. Cosima wagner Eva Rieger;
• 14. The wagner family: rebellion, honour, aftermath John Deathridge;
• Part III . Politics, Ideas & Bodies:
• 15. National politics Tim Blanning;
• 16. Revolutionary politics Mark Berry;
• 17. World drama. Wagner's hegelian heritage Günter Zöller;
• 18. Towards an 'ideal' feminine Eva Rieger;
• 19. Health & wellness Holly Watkins;
• 20. Sexuality & social mores Barry Millington;
• 21. Sentient bodies David Trippett;
• 22. Racial theory George Williamson;
• Part IV . Life, Language & the Ancient World:
• 23. Wagner's finances Sven Friedrich;
• 24. Wagner's apprenticeship Anna Stoll Knecht;
• 25. Wagner's mendacious humanism: wagnerian rhetoric between nature and the human Kirsten Paige;
• 26. Declaiming wagner: between genesis and historical performance practice Martin Knust;
• 27. The german study of india and buddhism Douglas McGetchin;
• 28. Greek drama in its nineteenth-century reception Michael Ewans;
• Part V . Music & Performance:
• 29. Orchestration Edward Reeve;
• 30. Wagner and music analysis: Siegfried and the rhinemaidens Patrick McCreless;
• 31. The scene of grand opera Barbara Eichner;
• 32. Wagner on the move Charlotte Bentley;
• 33. Stage technology Gundula Kreuzer;
• 34. Historic staging (1876-1976) Patrick Carnegy;
• Part VI . Reception:
• 35. Regietheater in performance Clemens Risi;
• 36. Twentieth-century reception and anti-semitisim Pamela Potter;
• 37. Bayreuth as idea: chamberlain, wolzogen, hitler Udo Bermbach;
• 38. Performing wagner in israel: an affront or a tribute? Victor Nefkens;
• 39. Nineteenth-century music criticism Alexander Wilfing;
• 40. Wotan's stormtroopers and the total art machine: kittler's ring of the nibelung Geoffrey Winthrop-Young;
• 41. Sound recording Laura Tunbridge;
• 42. The wagnerian erotics of video game music Tim Summers; Further reading; Select bibliography; Index.