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Wagner and the Art of the Theatre (Paperback)
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The production of Wagner's operas is fiercely debated. In this
groundbreaking stage history Patrick Carnegy vividly evokes
the-often scandalous-great productions that have left their mark
not only on our understanding of Wagner but on modern theatre as a
whole. He examines the way in which Wagner himself staged his
works, showing that the composer remained dissatisfied with even
the best of his productions. After Wagner's death the scenic
challenge was taken up by the Swiss visionary Adolphe Appia, by
Gustav Mahler and Alfred Roller in Vienna, and by Otto Klemperer
and Ewald Dulberg in Berlin. In Russia the Bolsheviks reinvented
Wagner as a social revolutionary, while cinema left its indelible
imprint on the Wagnerian stage with Eisenstein's Die Walkure in
Moscow in 1940. Hitler famously appropriated Wagner for his own
ends. Patrick Carnegy unscrambles the interaction of politics and
stage production, describing how post-war German directors sought a
way to bury the uncomfortable past. The book concludes with a
critique of the iconoclastic interpretations by Patrice Chereau,
Ruth Berghaus, and Hans-Jurgen Syberberg.
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