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Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde in 1903 Vienna: Context, Impact, and Interpretation

by Anna Stoll Knecht , Anastasia Belina
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780367773267
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 292
  • Original Price: GBP 155.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 450 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Genres & Styles / Classical

This volume uses the historic staging and legacy of the 1903 production of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, directed and conducted by Gustav Mahler, to explore a wide range of interdisciplinary issues in the history of the opera, performance, and the reception and interpretation of Wagner's work.

The production marked a turning point in twentieth-century opera, as Mahler and the designer Alfred Roller broke with nineteenth-century naturalistic traditions and used new technologies to transform the aural and visual experience of opera. With chapters contributed by scholars from musicology, art history, theatre studies, and other disciplines, this book provides a uniquely multifaceted perspective on Wagner's opera in the historical setting of the early twentieth century. Chapters in the first part address specific aspects of the 1903 production, including staging, lighting, and performance practice, while the second part sets the production in wider political, artistic, and literary context. Together, they show how the visual and musical elements of the staging interacted to express new artistic philosophies. Enriching our understanding of Wagner, stage history, and the cultural ferment emerging from fin-de-si�cle Vienna, this book will be of interest to researchers of music, theatre, and performance studies, and art and cultural history.

Anna Stoll Knecht is Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg, leading a five-year Starting Grant project on music at the fairground (Swiss National Science Foundation). She is the author of Mahler's Seventh Symphony (OUP 2019) and of several articles and essays on Mahler, Wagner, and physical comedy.

Anastasia Belina is a musicologist, writer, and artist manager based in Sweden. Her publications (as author, editor, and co-editor) include Die tägliche Mühe ein Mensch zu sein (2013), Wagner in Russia, Poland and the Czech Lands: Musical, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives (2013), The Business of Opera (Ashgate 2015), Cambridge Companion to Operetta (2019), and Music History
and Cosmopolitanism (2019).

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