Research Catalog
The trouble with Wagner
- Title
- The trouble with Wagner / Michael P. Steinberg.
- Author
- Steinberg, Michael P.
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JME 19-35 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
Details
- Description
- x, 151 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-147) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Wagnerian songlines -- History and the stage -- Siegmund's death -- Bad education -- Les passions humaines -- Afterword: on purity, danger, and the postsecular moment.
- Call Number
- JME 19-35
- ISBN
- 9780226594194
- 022659419X
- LCCN
- 2018022863
- OCLC
- 1028881405
- Author
- Steinberg, Michael P., author.
- Title
- The trouble with Wagner / Michael P. Steinberg.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-147) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JME 19-35