Wagner's Theatre

Introduction by John Deathridge
Prelude
Part One: The Master's Dream
1. Wagner and his Shakespeare
2. Reckoning up the Ring: a Mathematician's Diary of Bayreuth 1876
3. Designs on the Ring: the Mystery Surrounding Josef Hoffmann's Sketches Unravelled
Part Two: Arts of Interpretation
4. Tristan und Isolde, Vienna 1903: 'Wie hoer' ich das Licht!' (Gustav Mahler and Alfred Roller)
5. Damming the Rhine (Patrice Chereau's Ring at Bayreuth 1976)
6. Reinventing Wagner after Hitler (Wieland Wagner, Joachim Herz, Patrice Chereau and Hans- Juergen Syberberg)
7. A Touch of Wagnermania
Part Three: A Quartet of Conductors
8. Toscanini: Champion of the Divine Art
9. Klemperer: Sufferings and Greatness
10. Karajan: The Conductor as Supreme Being
11. Solti: Still Climbing the Mountain
Part Four: Opera Backstage: the Dramaturg's Story
12. Phantom at the Royal Opera
13. Blood on the Carpet: English National Opera in Retrospect
14. Michael Tippett on Opera (A Conversation with the Composer)

Selected Writings
Index
Illustration Credits

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