National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume II: Central and Eastern Europe (The Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies)

This volume offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the "long nineteenth century," giving particular emphasis to four areas: German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century; the works of Richard Wagner after 1848; Russian opera between Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov; and the operas of Richard Strauss and Janácek. The essays reflect diverse methods, ranging from stylistic, philological, and historical approaches to those rooted in hermeneutics, critical theory, and post-modernist inquiry. German Opera In The Early Nineteenth Century. The Arias Of Marzelline : Beethoven As A Composer Of Opera / Philip Gossett ; New Light(s) On Weber's Wolf's Glen Scene / Anthony Newcomb ; Richard Wagner And Weber's Euryanthe / Michael C. Tusa -- Wagner. The Ring And The Conditions Of Interpretation : Wagner's Writing, 1848 To 1852 / James Treadwell ; --wie Ein Rother Faden : On The Origins Of Leitmotif As Critical Construct And Musical Practice / Thomas Grey ; The Structure Of The Ring And Its Evolution / Robert Bailey ; Dramatic Recapitulation In Wagner's Götterdämmerung / William Kinderman ; Wagner, On Modulation, And Tristan / Carolyn Abbate ; Death Drive : Eros And Thanatos In Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde / Linda Hutcheon And Michael Hutcheon ; Constructing Nuremberg : Typological And Proleptic Communities In Die Meistersinger / Arthur Groos ; Amfortas's Prayer To Titurel And The Role Of D In Parsifal : The Tonal Spaces Of The Drama And The Enharmonic C♭/b / David Lewin ; Strange Love, Or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Wagner's Parsifal / John Deathridge -- Russian Opera. On Ruslan And Russianness / Marina Frolova-walker ; Mussorgsky's Boris On The Stage Of The Maryinsky Theater : A Chronicle Of The First Production / Robert William Oldani ; Musorgsky's Libretti On Historical Themes : From The Two Borises To Khovanshchina / Caryl Emerson ; The Semiotics Of Symmetry, Or, Rimsky-korsakov's Operatic History Lesson / Simon Morrison -- Strauss And Janáček. Strauss And The Pervert / Sander L. Gilman ; Fin-de-siècle Fantasies : Elektra And The Culture Of Supremacism / Lawrence Kramer ; Janáček's Speech-melody Theory In Concept And Practice / Paul Wingfield ; Evasive Realism : Narrative Construction In Dostoyevsky's And Janáček's From The House Of The Dead / Geoffrey Chew And Robert Vilain. Michael C. Tusa. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.