New,Wagner's Theatre: In Search of a Legacy
- Author: Carnegy, Patrick
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Contents
- Introduction by John Deathridge
- Prelude Part One: The Master's Dream
- 1. Wagner and his Shakespeare
- 2. Reckoning up the Ring: a Mathematician's Diary of Bayreuth 1876
- 3. Designs on the Ring: the Mystery Surrounding Josef Hoffmann's Sketches Unravelled Part Two: Arts of Interpretation
- 4. Tristan und Isolde, Vienna 1903: 'Wie hör' ich das Licht!' (Gustav Mahler and Alfred Roller)
- 5. Damming the Rhine (Patrice Chéreau's Ring at Bayreuth 1976)
- 6. Reinventing Wagner after Hitler (Wieland Wagner, Joachim Herz, Patrice Chéreau and Hans- Jürgen Syberberg)
- 7. A Touch of Wagnermania Part Three: A Quartet of Conductors
- 8. Toscanini: Champion of the Divine Art
- 9. Klemperer: Sufferings and Greatness
- 10. Karajan: The Conductor as Supreme Being
- 11. Solti: Still Climbing the Mountain Part Four: Opera Backstage: the Dramaturg's Story
- 12. Phantom at the Royal Opera
- 13. Blood on the Carpet: English National Opera in Retrospect
- 14. Michael Tippett on Opera (A Conversation with the Composer) Selected Writings
- Index Illustration Credits