The Trouble with Wagner

Michael P. Steinberg

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Jahr: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780226594224
• Thema: Médias et arts de la scène
• Thema: Musique

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.

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, ...