Wagner in Context

Part I. Place: 1. Paris Katharine Ellis; 2. Dresden Thomas S. Grey; 3. Zurich and Lucerne Chris Walton; 4. Italy Ellen Lockhart; 5. London Barry Millington; 6. Bayreuth as city: a wagnerian chronology Sven Friedrich; 7. America Leon Botstein; 8. Spain in the cosmos of Richard Wagner Dieter Borchmeyer; Part II. People: 9. Franz Liszt Joanne Cormac; 10. Nietzsche and Wagner: the logic of contradiction Federico Celestini; 11. Wagner, schopenhauer and the world as a phantasmagoria Robert Wicks; 12. Assessing wilhelmine schroeder-devrient: influence, genre, and voice Anno Mungen; 13. Cosima wagner Eva Rieger; 14. The wagner family: rebellion, honour, aftermath John Deathridge; Part III. Politics, Ideas & Bodies: 15. National politics Tim Blanning; 16. Revolutionary politics Mark Berry; 17. World drama. Wagner's hegelian heritage Guenter Zoeller; 18. Towards an 'ideal' feminine Eva Rieger; 19. Health & wellness Holly Watkins; 20. Sexuality & social mores Barry Millington; 21. Sentient bodies David Trippett; 22. Racial theory George Williamson; Part IV. Life, Language & the Ancient World: 23. Wagner's finances Sven Friedrich; 24. Wagner's apprenticeship Anna Stoll Knecht; 25. Wagner's mendacious humanism: wagnerian rhetoric between nature and the human Kirsten Paige; 26. Declaiming wagner: between genesis and historical performance practice Martin Knust; 27. The german study of india and buddhism Douglas McGetchin; 28. Greek drama in its nineteenth-century reception Michael Ewans; Part V. Music & Performance: 29. Orchestration Edward Reeve; 30. Wagner and music analysis: Siegfried and the rhinemaidens Patrick McCreless; 31. The scene of grand opera Barbara Eichner; 32. Wagner on the move Charlotte Bentley; 33. Stage technology Gundula Kreuzer; 34. Historic staging (1876-1976) Patrick Carnegy; Part VI. Reception: 35. Regietheater in performance Clemens Risi; 36. Twentieth-century reception and anti-semitisim Pamela Potter; 37. Bayreuth as idea: chamberlain, wolzogen, hitler Udo Bermbach; 38. Performing wagner in israel: an affront or a tribute? Victor Nefkens; 39. Nineteenth-century music criticism Alexander Wilfing; 40. Wotan's stormtroopers and the total art machine: kittler's ring of the nibelung Geoffrey Winthrop-Young; 41. Sound recording Laura Tunbridge; 42. The wagnerian erotics of video game music Tim Summers; Further reading; Select bibliography; Index.