Opera and Drama - Softcover

Wagner, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803297653 ISBN 13: 9780803297654

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1995

Synopsis

With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0803297653
• ISBN 13: 9780803297654
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416