The Trouble with Wagner
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The Trouble with Wagner

Michael P. Steinberg

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The Trouble with Wagner

Michael P. Steinberg

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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.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780226594224
Topic
Medios de comunicación y artes escénicas
Subtopic
Música

Index

Abbate, Carolyn, 30
“absolute music,” 16, 39
Adorno, Theodor, 11, 26, 33, 37–39, 65
Aeschylus, 16, 101
Agamben, Giorgio, 127
Anthropocene, 45, 83, 94
anti-Semitism, 1, 7, 9, 13, 130, 131, 134
Appia, Adolphe, 40
Arab Spring, 80
Arendt, Hannah, 47, 132
Asad, Talal, 127
Audi, Pierre, 92
Bagnoli, Enrico, 60–64, 83, 86–87, 101
Barenboim, Daniel, 3, 4, 5–6, 73–74, 92, 117, 134
Baudouin I, King of Belgium, 52
Baudelaire, Charles, 6
Beckett, Samuel, 86
Beethoven, Ludwig, 5, 16, 22, 37, 39, 135
Béjart, Maurice, 57
Bellini, Vicenzo, 15
Norma, 15, 97, 99, 115–16, 124, 128
Ben-Gurion, David, 134
Benjamin, Walter, 44, 64
Berger, Karol, 74–75, 126
Berghaus, Ruth, 27–28
Berkeley, George, 12
Berlin Conference of 1884, 54, 109
Berlin State Opera (Staatsoper Berlin), ix, 4, 131
Beyreuth Festival, 2, 3, 24, 40, 75, 101
Beyreuth Festival Hall, 37, 46
Bleichröder, Gerson von, 56
Bloch, Ernst, 71
Böcklin, Arnold, 44
Boulez, Pierre, 3, 41
Boym, Svetlana, 20
Brabo, Silvius, 53
Brecht, Bertolt, 59
Broch, Hermann, 11, 32
Burckhardt, Jakob, 31, 47
Burtynsky, Edward, 50, 54, 102
Callas, Maria, 121, 124
Calvin, John, 21
Cassiers, Guy, ...

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