The Trouble with Wagner
Autor Michael P. Steinbergen Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 noi 2018
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.
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226594194
ISBN-10: 022659419X
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 8 color plates, 12 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 022659419X
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 8 color plates, 12 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Michael P. Steinberg is president of the American Academy in Berlin and Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History and professor of music and German studies at Brown University. He is the author, most recently, of Judaism Musical and Unmusical, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Cuprins
Preface
Introduction: Wagnerian Songlines
One: History and the Stage
Two: Siegmund’s Death
Three: Bad Education
Four: Les passions humaines
Afterword: On Purity, Danger, and the Postsecular Moment
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Introduction: Wagnerian Songlines
One: History and the Stage
Two: Siegmund’s Death
Three: Bad Education
Four: Les passions humaines
Afterword: On Purity, Danger, and the Postsecular Moment
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Recenzii
“Unlike any other composer, Wagner continues to fascinate. Michael P. Steinberg has added to the vast literature a thought-provoking look at the composer from the perspective of not only history and criticism, but also the challenges of mounting a contemporary production. Through Steinberg’s uncommon grace and learning, readers will encounter why Wagner is still with us today as a force in the arts and culture.”
“An exquisitely learned and sensitive journey through ambiguities that make the case against Wagner always also a case for. Readable and often very witty, this new book is perfectly reflective in its novel combination of two kinds of expertise that rarely come together. While offering sophisticated philosophical insight into the Ring Cycle, the author recalls his first-hand involvement in producing the work for the stage. Most highly recommended.”
“After thirty years of writing on music in relation to history, politics, and ideology, Steinberg has produced the book he was brought into the world to write. The Trouble with Wagner explores Wagner ambivalence with unparalleled erudition, breathtaking mastery of the Ring, deep understanding of Wagner's conception of modernity, and an astonishing ability to integrate the history of performance into the story of how Wagner’s work has been understood. The book is brilliant and riveting. The Trouble with Wagner will be discussed for many years to come.”
"This slim but important volume offers a unique perspective on Wagner’s mature music, a perspective that arises from the author's dual career as historian and dramaturg.... Ultimately, the 'trouble' with Wagner may best be addressed not by scholarship or criticism but through the choices that must be made to present these masterworks to a contemporary audience. A significant achievement, this book is sure to have a role in any serious Wagner discussion."
"In his new, deceptively slender book, Michael P. Steinberg, a distinguished cultural historian of music, pursues two separate but interdependent lines of thought. On the one hand, he offers an account of the Wagner bicentennial production of The Ring . . . On the other hand, and more fundamentally, he offers a sophisticated 'deep' reading of the latent layers of psychology, philosophy, and history embedded in this colossus of the operatic stage."
"Anyone who seeks total immersion in the Wagnerian oceanic experience would find the time spent reading this book time well spent."