Wagner and the art of the theatre
Subtitle: the operas in stage performance
By: Patrick Carnegy.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
Subjects: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Performances; Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Dramaturgy; Opera -- Production and direction -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Wagner and the theatre of the early 19th century; title: The art of the future; title: by royal command; title: Staging the ring at Bayreuth; title: Parsifal and beyond; title: The inheritors : Cosima and Siegfried Wagner, Gustav Mahler and Alfred Roller; title: Adolphe Appia : the opened eye of the score; title: Wagner in Russia, 1890-1940; title: Travail and truth : Klemperer and the Krolloper; title: Wieland Wagner; title: The political imperative; title: Our uncomfortable contemporary.