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Author: Professor Dr Eva Rieger ,
Dr Chris Walton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.456kg
ISBN: 9781843836858
ISBN 10: 1843836858
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 20 October 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
(M)ake(s) important steps in Wagner research and enable us to see how his theoretical works, libretti and music combine to present an important step forward in seeing how his female characters contribute to his overall creation of musical masterworks that still speak so powerfully to us. WAGNER QUARTERLY (WAGNER SOCIETY NSW, Australia)BR (T)his book provides a fascinating insight into the stimuli which made Richard Wagner what he was and led him to create what are arguably for some and definitively for many the Western world's most significant, entrancing and enduring compositions for the operatic stage. WAGNER NEWS (T)he most comprehensive analysis of Wagner's major female characters to date (...) in an excellent English translation by Chris Walton (...) Rieger's approach offers an intriguing reading of women and gender in Wagner (...) compelling us to apply a more critical stance towards his idealisation of the feminine. THE WAGNER JOURNAL
[M]ake[s] important steps in Wagner research and enable us to see how his theoretical works, libretti and music combine to present an important step forward in seeing how his female characters contribute to his overall creation of musical masterworks that still speak so powerfully to us. * WAGNER QUARTERLY [WAGNER SOCIETY NSW, Australia] * [T]his book provides a fascinating insight into the stimuli which made Richard Wagner what he was and led him to create what are arguably for some and definitively for many the Western world's most significant, entrancing and enduring compositions for the operatic stage. * WAGNER NEWS * [T]he most comprehensive analysis of Wagner's major female characters to date [...] in an excellent English translation by Chris Walton [...] Rieger's approach offers an intriguing reading of women and gender in Wagner [...] compelling us to apply a more critical stance towards his idealisation of the feminine. * THE WAGNER JOURNAL *
(T)he most comprehensive analysis of Wagner's major female characters to date (...) in an excellent English translation by Chris Walton (...) Rieger's approach offers an intriguing reading of women and gender in Wagner (...) compelling us to apply a more critical stance towards his idealisation of the feminine. THE WAGNER JOURNAL
Author Information
EVA RIEGER is professor emeritus in historical musicology at the University of Bremen. CHRIS WALTON taught music history at the Basel University of Music in Switzerland, is an Honorary Professor at Africa Open Institute (Stellenbosch University in South Africa) and runs two research projects at the Bern University of the Arts for the Swiss National Science Foundation.
