Wagner's visions : poetry, politics, and the psyche in the operas through Die Walküre

Wagner's Visions studies crucial influences on Wagner's dramatic style during the years before and just after the failed Dresden revolutionary uprising of 1849. Offering a detailed examination of Die Feen, Wagner's least-known complete opera, together with analysis of Der fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, and the four Ring dramas, Katherine Syer explores the inner experiences of Wagner's protagonists. Sources of particular political significance include the fables of the eighteenth-century Venetian playwright Carlo Gozzi, the Iphigenia operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck, and the legacy of the martyr Theodor Korner, whose poetry became the lingua franca of the revolutionary movement to liberate and unify Germany. Syer's book offers fresh insights into the historical context that gave rise to Wagner's dramatic art, revealing how his distinct and powerful imagery is intimately bound up with the crises and instabilities of his era. Katherine R. Syer is associate professor of musicology and theater at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9781580464826 ; 1580464823
• Extent: X, 256 S.
• Edition: 1. publ.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Ill., Noten ; Literaturangaben

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Eastman studies in music ; V. 115

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Wagner, Richard ; Geschichte ; Oper

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Rochester, NY, Woodbridge, Suffolk
• (who): Univ. of Rochester Press, Boydell & Brewer
• (when): 2014
• Creator: Syer, Katherine R.

Further information

• Table of contents: https://d-nb.info/1067605460/04
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• Last update: 11.06.2025, 2:28 PM CEST