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Richard Wagner's Women (Hardcover)
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Richard Wagner's Women (Hardcover)
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A well-researched and exhaustive analysis of the role of women in
Wagner's operas. Richard Wagner's music contains some of the most
powerful portrayals of emotions in all opera, particularly love.
Eva Rieger presents a new picture of the composer, showing how the
women at his side inspired him and how closely his life and art
intertwined. We follow Wagner's restless hunt for the 'ideal
woman', her appointed task being to give him shelter, warmth,
inspiration, adventure and redemption, all in one. He could hardly
have desired anything more contradictory, and this is reflected in
the female characters of his operas. They are all in some way torn,
faltering between their own desire for self-realization and the
societal constraints that impel them to sacrificethemselves for
their men. Rieger bids farewell to essentialist, naturalized
notions of femininity and masculinity. Her investigations are both
comprehensive and convincing, for she avoids the pitfalls of
imposing extraneousinterpretation, instead focussing keenly on the
music itself. EVA RIEGER is Professor Emeritus in Historical
Musicology at the University of Bremen and lives in the
principality of Liechtenstein.
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