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Wagner's Meistersinger - Performance, History, Representation (Paperback, New Ed)
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Wagner's Meistersinger - Performance, History, Representation (Paperback, New Ed)
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Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg has been one of the
most performed operas ever since its premier in 1868. It was
adopted as Germany's national operas ('Nationaloper'), not least
because of its historical coincidence with the unification of
Germany under Bismarck in 1871. The opera epitomizes themes of
Germanness, including what many regard as blatant anti-Semitic
imagery, and thus ideally suited the agenda of the Third Reich, or
so it seemed. Despite or perhaps because of the ease with which the
Nazis appropriated the work, it was selected as the first opera to
be performed when the Bayreuth festival re-opened after the War.The
first section of this volume, 'Performing Meistersinger, contains
three commissioned articles from internationally respected artists
- a conductor (Peter Schneider), a stage director (Harry Kupfer)
and a singer (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau), all experienced in the
performance of this unusually demanding 5-hour work. The second
section, 'Meistersinger and History', examines both the
representation of German history in the opera and the way the opera
has functioned in history through political appropriation and
staging practice. The third section, 'Representations', is the most
eclectic, exploring in the first place the problematic question of
genre from the perspective of a theatrical historian. The chronic
issue of Wagner's chief opponent, Eduard Hanslick, and his musical
and dramatic representation in the opera as Bessmesser, is then
addressed, as are gender issues, and Wagner's own utterances
concerning the opera. Contributors: Nicholas Vazsonyi, Peter
Schneider, Harry Kupfer, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hans Rudolf
Vaget, Lutz Koepnick, David B.Dennis, Klaus Van Den Berg, Thomas S.
Grey, Lydia Goehr, Eva Rieger, Peter HAyng. Nicholas Vazsonyi is
Associate Professor of German, University of South Carolina
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