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Author : Patrick Carnegy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300106955
Chapitre 6, p. 175-207, consacré à Adolphe Appia.
Author : Jeongwon Joe,Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253221636
The contributors discuss films ranging from the 1913 biopic of Wagner to Ridley Scott's Gladiator, with essays on silent cinema, film scoring, Wagner in Hollywood, German cinema, and Wagner beyond the soundtrack.
Author : Matthew Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136661631
That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among other things, a 'devourer' (Love's Labour's Lost), one who can untie knots (Twelfth Night), or, perhaps most famously, simply ‘out of joint’ (Hamlet). Yet most critical commentary on time and Shakespeare tends to incorporate little focus on time as an essential - if elusive - element of stage praxis. This book aims to fill that gap; Wagner's focus is specifically performative, asking after time as a stage phenomenon rather than a literary theme or poetic metaphor. His primary approach is phenomenological, as the book aims to describe how time operates on Shakespearean stages. Through philosophical, historiographical, dramaturgical, and performative perspectives, Wagner examines the ways in which theatrical activity generates a manifest presence of time, and he demonstrates Shakespeare’s acute awareness and manipulation of this phenomenon. Underpinning these investigations is the argument that theatrical time, and especially Shakespearean time, is rooted in temporal conflict and ‘thickness’ (the heightened sense of the present moment bearing the weight of both the past and the future). Throughout the book, Wagner traces the ways in which time transcends thematic and metaphorical functions, and forms an essential part of Shakespearean stage praxis.
Author : Simon Williams
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004257114
In contrast to most books on Richard Wagner, this biography focuses primarily on Wagner as an important figure in the development of the theatre. While his contribution to music history has been exhaustively documented and analyzed, his theatrical ventures, in particular the founding of the Bayreuth Festival, have not been the object of much research by English-speaking theatre historians. Nevertheless, the Festival was a crucial event in the development of the European theatre: while Bayreuth established the paradigm for all modern theatre and music festivals, the Festival Theatre itself has provided the most widely imitated architectural configuration in twentieth-century theatre building.
Author : Patrick Carnegy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780718897437
In Wagner’s Theatre, Patrick Carnegy presents the turbulent story of Wagner and his interpreters over the course of the twentieth century. Carnegy gives vivid accounts of Gustav Mahler's radical reinvention of the Wagnerian stage, and of the post-war rehabilitation of Wagner and his work after Hitler's appropriation. He also offers sharply written reappraisals of those great Wagnerian conductors Klemperer, Toscanini, Karajan and Solti. Carnegy provides revealing accounts of the inside-workings of the Royal Opera House and of English National Opera at troubled points in their recent history. In a fascinating conversation with Sir Michael Tippett, the composer talks with unique authority about the problems facing would-be musical dramatists today. Wagner’s Theatre is an essential insight into how interpretations of Wagner have developed, and how we can respond to them.
Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Opera
ISBN : UCSD:31822028257418
Over the last 150 years, Wagner's operas have been parodied, translated into scores of languages - from Lettish to Catalan - reviled and revered. Audiences have been confronted with pre-Raphaelite Wagner, High victorian Wagner, art deco and high-tech Wagner. Charles Osborne's authoritative and perceptive text provides the historical framework and critical commentary for the productions highlighted in the illustrations, while his biographical dictionary of the main performers, conductors, designers and producers of Wagner will prove an invaluable reference source for all Wagnerpiles.
Author : Dieter Borchmeyer,Professor of German and Theatre Studies Dieter Borchmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019315322X
Richard Wagner has come to be seen as the quintessential artist of the nineteenth century, whose work embraces all the arts of the period. Dieter Borchmeyer here provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of Wagner's aesthetic theory, examining his hitherto neglected prosewritings and his ideas on music drama from the various standpoints of literature, the linking of ideas, and the sociology of art. The pre-eminent importance for Wagner of classical Greek art and mythology emerges with particular clarity, while his links with the great figures and forms of worldtheatre - Shakespeare, the commedia dell'arte, the popular theatre, and the puppet theatre - are traced in detail. The influence on Wagner of the historical and social novel is also discussed. The author provides the first comprehensive analysis of Cosima Wagner's Diaries, and throws unexpectedsidelights on Wagner's relationship with Nietzsche, in particular his important contribution to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. Central to the present study are Wagner's music dramas from Die Feen to Parsifal. These are examined in their literary, ideological, and socio-political contexts (including the problem of anti-Semitism). First published in German in 1982, this book has become established as a standard work ofWagner scholarship, and now appears for the first time in English in a completely revised edition incorporating a number of new chapters on the music dramas.
Author : Hilda Meldrum Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015037060434
Wagner and Brecht are seemingly opposed in their approach to drama, music, and visual representation, the former believing in the integration of these different elements in the "Gesamtkunstwerk", the other in their separation. However, they share common ground in their sophisticated use of leitmotivic networks, a bridging device for Wagner who builds onto its verbal and semantic foundation a unique and complex musical language. Both use the device to explain and evaluate a dramatic action as it unfolds, i.e. as a major form of perspectival commentary. Brown discusses the paradox that Wagner's theory can shed light on Brecht's dramatic practice, since Brecht's own thematical concerns focus almost exclusively on the gestic and disjunctive perspectives identified with epic theatre.
Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:638308320
Author : Matt Wagner,Guy Davis
Publisher : Vertigo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1563891956
In the spirit of Spillane and Chandler, Matt Wagner sets a spicy tale of murder, danger and intrigue in the decadent, post-Depression world of 1938 New York. Readers follow the adventures of Wesley Dodds--a humble millionaire by day, who at night becomes the mysterious gas-masked detective known as the Golden Age Sandman.
Author : Albert Lavignac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Bayreuther Festspiele
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042666987
Author : Matt Wagner,Steven T. Seagle
Publisher : Vertigo
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401275853
NONE CAN ESCAPE THE SANDMANÕS DARK DREAMS The year is 1938, and the world is holding its breathÑmesmerized by the onrushing storm that will soon engulf it in fire and steel. In New York City, one manÕs sleep is filled with tormenting visions of the evils that mankind visits upon itself, compelling him to act. And so, by night, Wesley Dodds lays aside the trappings of his inherited wealth to roam the shadows as the Sandman, armed with a tranquilizing gas gun and driven by an unrelenting sense of justice. Haunted and obsessed, the Sandman moves through a decadent, post-Depression landscape, stalking the predators who hide themselves beneath societyÕs callous indifference to the weak and vulnerable. No one sees him at his work until he chooses to reveal himselfÑno one, that is, except the woman who is destined to be the light to his darkness. Written by comics legends Matt Wagner and Steven T. Seagle and illustrated by acclaimed artists Guy Davis and Vince Locke, this second volume of the complete SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE collects issues #13-24 of the classic Vertigo series and also includes the never-before-reprinted SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE ANNUAL #1, featuring stunning guest artwork from Alex Ross, David Lloyd, John Bolton and more.
Author : Dieter Borchmeyer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0691114978
Richard Wagner continues to be the most controversial artist in history, a perpetually troubling figure in our cultural consciousness. The unceasing debate over his works and their impact--for and against--is one reason why there has been no genuinely comprehensive modern account of his musical dramas until now. Dieter Borchmeyer's book is the first to present an overall picture of these musical dramas from the standpoint of literary and theatrical history. It extends from the composer's early works--still largely ignored--to the Ring Cycle and Parsifal, and includes Wagner's unfinished works and operas he never set to music. Through lively prose, we come to see Wagner as a librettist--and as a man of letters--rather than primarily as musical composer. Borchmeyer uncovers a vast field of cultural and historical cross-references in Wagner's works. In the first part of the book, he sets out in search of the various archetypal scenes, opening up the composer's dramatic workshop to the reader. He covers all of Wagner's operas, from early juvenilia to the canonical later works. The second part examines Wagner in relation to political figures including King Ludwig II and Bismarck, and, importantly, in light of critical reactions by literary giants--Thomas Mann, whom Borchmeyer calls "a guiding light in this exploration of the fields that Wagner tilled," and Nietzsche, whose appeal to "philology" is a key source of inspiration in attempts to grapple with Wagner's works. For more than twenty years, Borchmeyer has placed his scholarship at the service of the famed Bayreuth Festival. With this volume, he gives us a summation of decades of engagement with the phenomenon of Wagner and, at the same time, the result of an abiding critical passion for his works.
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0353350087
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Author : Dieter Borchmeyer,Professor of German and Theatre Studies Dieter Borchmeyer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691114972
Richard Wagner continues to be the most controversial artist in history, a perpetually troubling figure in our cultural consciousness. The unceasing debate over his works and their impact--for and against--is one reason why there has been no genuinely comprehensive modern account of his musical dramas until now. Dieter Borchmeyer's book is the first to present an overall picture of these musical dramas from the standpoint of literary and theatrical history. It extends from the composer's early works--still largely ignored--to the Ring Cycle and Parsifal, and includes Wagner's unfinished works and operas he never set to music. Through lively prose, we come to see Wagner as a librettist--and as a man of letters--rather than primarily as musical composer. Borchmeyer uncovers a vast field of cultural and historical cross-references in Wagner's works. In the first part of the book, he sets out in search of the various archetypal scenes, opening up the composer's dramatic workshop to the reader. He covers all of Wagner's operas, from early juvenilia to the canonical later works. The second part examines Wagner in relation to political figures including King Ludwig II and Bismarck, and, importantly, in light of critical reactions by literary giants--Thomas Mann, whom Borchmeyer calls "a guiding light in this exploration of the fields that Wagner tilled," and Nietzsche, whose appeal to "philology" is a key source of inspiration in attempts to grapple with Wagner's works. For more than twenty years, Borchmeyer has placed his scholarship at the service of the famed Bayreuth Festival. With this volume, he gives us a summation of decades of engagement with the phenomenon of Wagner and, at the same time, the result of an abiding critical passion for his works.