Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner FestivalYale University Press, 1 de gen. 1994 - 334 pàgines Germany's cultural glory - Germany's political shame: the opera festival established by Richard Wagner in 1876 is one of the most intriguing phenomena of modern European cultural history. The oldest and best known of music festivals, Bayreuth was from the beginning not simply a place for model performances of Wagner's works but equally the centre of an ideological cult, with the Festspielhaus its sacred shrine and audiences its devout pilgrims. |
Continguts
Strong and fair see it stand | 29 |
The eternal work is done | 55 |
Here I sit on alert guarding the home | 90 |
Oh Siegfried I was always yours | 123 |
Thus evil enters this house | 159 |
All that lives and soon must die | 189 |
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artistic attend audience auditorium August Bavarian Bayreuth Berlin Brückners Brünnhilde characters Chéreau chorus colour composer composer's conducting conductor considered Cosima Wagner costumes critics director drama Ernest Newman Festival Festival's Festspielhaus final fliegende Holländer Friedelind Friedrich Furtwängler Götterdämmerung Götz Friedrich Groß Hitler idea impression interpretation Isolde King Ludwig Kundry later less Letter lighting Lilli Lehmann Lohengrin Meistersinger Munich musicians never Newman Nibelung opera house orchestra original Parsifal performance political praised Preetorius première production rehearsals Rheingold Richard Wagner Ring role scene score season second act Semper sets Siegfried Siegfried Wagner Siegfried's Siegmund singers singing social soloists sound stage designer Strauss style symbolic Tannhäuser theatre third act Third Reich Tietjen tion Toscanini tradition Tristan turned visual voice Wagner family Wagner's operas Wagnerian Wagnerian opera Wahnfried Walküre wanted Wieland Wagner Winifred Winifred's Wolfgang Wagner Wolfgang Windgassen Wotan wrote Zeitung