Richard Strauss

Oper aktuell

Essays Öffnung zum Überzeitlichen Oper ist Aufruhr: Eine Liebeserklärung   Elke Heidenreich Eine Flöte ist eine Flöte ist eine Flöte … : Das erschreckend Einfache in den Mythen-Bildern von Dirk Reinartz   Hanspeter Krellmann Held und Spielbell der Zeit: Irrfahrt und Heimkehr des Odysseus in Mythos und Oper   Lydia Andrea Hartl Zwischen Liebe und Pflicht: Dido und …

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Richard Strauss: a critical commentary on his life and works, Volume 3

A Gay Pastiche On the Rebound Die Liebe der Danae The Indian Summer (I): An Operatic Testament A Lifetime of Lieder Writing The Indian Summer (II): A last Upsurge of Genius Epilogue Appendices Youthful Works catalogued by Strauss with Opus Numbers Works published with Definitive Opus Numbers Works published without Opus Numbers Compositions arranged according …

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A Song of Love and Death

Preface Rite Orpheus Dionysus Eros Mephistopheles Dagon Repertory Classical Opera Mozart Romantic Opera Beethoven and Political Opera Berlioz and Historical Opera Verdi Wagner Realism and Puccini Wagnerism and Strauss Past and Present Performance Phantoms of the Opera The Met and the Metropolis Opera in a Garden New Theaters Drama Against Music After the Revolution, and …

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Opera and Modern Culture

Prologue: Thinking through Opera with Wagner and Strauss Opera: Two or Three Things I Know About Her Contesting Wagner: The Lohengrin Prelude and Anti-Anti-Semitism The Waters of Prometheus: Nationalism and Sexuality in Wagner’s Ring Enchantment and Modernity: Wagner the Symptom Modernity’s Cutting Edge: The Salome Complex Video as Jugendstil: Salome, Visuality, and Performance Fin-de-siècle fantasies: …

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The Maestro Myth

Introduction: The Making of a Myth The Tears of a Clown: The composer as conductor; the personal tragedy of Hans von Bülow Honest Hans and the Magician: Nikisch and Richter Masters of the House: Mahler and Strauss; Walter, Klemperer and Krauss Facing the Dictators: Toscanini v. Furtwängler; Szell, Reiner and the Soviet system The Karajan …

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