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Richard Wagner's Women
Eva Rieger
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Description for Richard Wagner's Women
Hardcover. A well-researched and exhaustive analysis of the role of women in Wagner's operas. Translator(s): Walton, Chris. Num Pages: 248 pages, 41, 12 black and white, 29 line drawing. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVGC9; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590. 248 pages, 41, 12 black and white, 29 line drawing. A well-researched and exhaustive analysis of the role of women in Wagner's operas. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVGC9; AVH. Dimension: 240 x 159 x 27. Weight: 598. Translator(s): Walton, Chris.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell Press
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843836858
SKU
V9781843836858
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99-15
About Eva Rieger
EVA RIEGER is professor emeritus in historical musicology at the University of Bremen. Chris Walton studied at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Zurich and Munich. He was head of the Music Department of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich for ten years before being appointed chair of music at the University of Pretoria. He moved back to Switzerland in 2008 and lives today ... Read more
Reviews for Richard Wagner's Women
[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 ... Read more
WAGNER QUARTERLY [WAGNER SOCIETY NSW, Australia]
[T]his book provides a fascinating insight ... Read more