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Informationen zum Autor Michael C. Tusa! Professor! University of Texas at Austin! USA Klappentext Offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the nineteenth century! emphasising on four areas: German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century; the works of Richard Wagner after 1848; Russian opera between Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov; and! the operas of Richard Strauss and Janacek. Zusammenfassung Offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the nineteenth century, emphasising on four areas: German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century; the works of Richard Wagner after 1848; Russian opera between Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov; and, the operas of Richard Strauss and Janacek. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Part I German Opera in the Early 19th Century: The arias of Marzelline: Beethoven as a composer of opera! Philip Gossett; New light(s) on Weber's Wolf's Glen scene! Anthony Newcomb; Richard Wagner and Weber's Euryanthe! Michael C. Tusa. Part II Wagner: The Ring and the conditions of interpretation: Wagner's writing! 1848 to 1852! James Treadwell; ...wie ein rother Faden: on the origins of 'leitmotif' as critical construct and musical practice! Thomas Grey; The structure of the Ring and its evolution! Robert Bailey; Dramatic recapitulation in Wagner's Götterdämmerung! William Kinderman; Wagner! 'On modulation' and Tristan! Carolyn Abbate; Death drive: Eros and Thanatos in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde! Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon; Constructing Nuremberg: typological and proleptic communities in Die Meistersinger! Arthur Groos; Amfortas's Prayer to Titurel and the role of D in Parsifal: the tonal spaces of the drama and the enharmonic C-flat/B! David Lewin; Strange love or! how we learned to stop worrying and love Wagner's Parsifal! John Deathridge. Part III Russian Opera: On Ruslan and Russianness! Marina Frolova-Walker; Mussorgsky's Boris on the stage of the Maryinsky Theater: a chronicle of the first production! Robert William Oldani; Mussorgsky's libretti on historical themes: from the two Borises to Khovanshchina! Caryl Emerson; The semiotics of symmetry! or Rimsky-Korsakov's operatic history lesson! Simon Morrison. Part IV Strauss and Janácek: Strauss and the pervert! Sander L. Gilman; Fin-de-siècle fantasies: Elektra and the culture of supremacism! Lawrence Kramer; Janácek's speech-melody theory in concept and practice! Paul Wingfield; Evasive realism: narrative construction in Dostoyevsky's and Janácek's 'From the House of the Dead'! Geoffrey Chew and Robert Vilain; Name Index. ...
