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Parsifal and Canada: a Documentary Study
Parsifal and Canada: A Documentary Study The Canadian Opera Company is preparing to stage Parsifal in Toronto for the first time in 115 years; seven performances are planned for the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts from September 25 to October 18, 2020. Restrictions on public gatherings imposed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic have placed the production in jeopardy. Wagnerians have so far suffered the cancellation of the COC’s Flying Dutchman, Chicago Lyric Opera’s Ring cycle and the entire Bayreuth Festival for 2020. It will be a hard blow if the COC Parsifal follows in the footsteps of a projected performance of Parsifal in Montreal over 100 years ago. Quinlan Opera Company from England, which mounted a series of 20 operas in Montreal in the spring of 1914 (including a complete Ring cycle), announced plans to return in the fall of 1914 for another feast of opera, including Parsifal. But World War One intervened, the Parsifal production was cancelled, and the Quinlan company went out of business. Let us hope that history does not repeat itself.1 While we await news of whether the COC production will be mounted, it is an opportune time to reflect on Parsifal and its various resonances in Canadian music history. This article will consider three aspects of Parsifal and Canada: 1) a performance history, including both excerpts and complete presentations; 2) remarks on some Canadian singers who have sung Parsifal roles; and 3) Canadian scholarship on Parsifal. NB: The indication [DS] refers the reader to sources that are reproduced in the documentation portfolio that accompanies this article. -
05-11-2019 Gotter Eve.Indd
Synopsis Prologue Mythical times. At night in the mountains, the three Norns, daughters of Erda, weave the rope of destiny. They tell how Wotan ordered the World Ash Tree, from which his spear was once cut, to be felled and its wood piled around Valhalla. The burning of the pyre will mark the end of the old order. Suddenly, the rope breaks. Their wisdom ended, the Norns descend into the earth. Dawn breaks on the Valkyries’ rock, and Siegfried and Brünnhilde emerge. Having cast protective spells on Siegfried, Brünnhilde sends him into the world to do heroic deeds. As a pledge of his love, Siegfried gives her the ring that he took from the dragon Fafner, and she offers her horse, Grane, in return. Siegfried sets off on his travels. Act I In the hall of the Gibichungs on the banks of the Rhine, Hagen advises his half- siblings, Gunther and Gutrune, to strengthen their rule through marriage. He suggests Brünnhilde as Gunther’s bride and Siegfried as Gutrune’s husband. Since only the strongest hero can pass through the fire on Brünnhilde’s rock, Hagen proposes a plan: A potion will make Siegfried forget Brünnhilde and fall in love with Gutrune. To win her, he will claim Brünnhilde for Gunther. When Siegfried’s horn is heard from the river, Hagen calls him ashore. Gutrune offers him the potion. Siegfried drinks and immediately confesses his love for her.Ð When Gunther describes the perils of winning his chosen bride, Siegfried offers to use the Tarnhelm to transform himself into Gunther. -
IN SUMMER Lucerne Is a Wagner City
Der Ring des Nibelungen IN SUMMER Lucerne is a Wagner city. For six years – from 1866 to 1872 – the com- poser resided at the Villa Tribschen. This was a decisive period for him artistically as well as personally. It was here that he completed Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and resumed work on The Ring of the Nibelung, composing both the third act of Siegfried and Götterdäm- merung. Wagner’s Lucerne years also represented a turning point in his personal life. He moved into his new home on Lake Lucerne with Cosima von Bülow, whom he then married on 25 August 1870 in the Protestant parish church. And it was in Tribschen that two of the couple’s three children – their daughter Eva and son Siegfried – were born. To mark the composer’s 200th birthday, LUCERNE FESTIVAL is presenting the first complete performance of theRing cycle in the Wagner city of Lucerne, with the English conductor Jonathan Nott, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and internationally acclaimed Wagner singers, including Albert Dohmen as Wotan, the ruler of the gods, Petra Lang making her role debut as Brünnhilde, Torsten Kerl as Siegfried, Klaus Florian Vogt in the role of Siegmund, and the Russian bass Mikhail Petrenko in a threefold assignment as Fafner, Hunding, and Hagen. This concert presentation of the epoch-making work will enable us to focus on Wagner the musical revolutionary. The highly acclaimed acoustics of the KKL Lucerne’s Salle blanche concert hall will bring out the sonic details and nuances of Wagner’s astounding orchestration with a transparency that has not been heard before. -
Von Zürich Bis Tribschen Mit Dem Richard-Wagner-Verband Leipzig in Die Schweiz
Von Zürich bis Tribschen Mit dem Richard-Wagner-Verband Leipzig in die Schweiz Zürich Luzern 1. Tag Montag, 02.09.2019 Schloss Hohenschwangau „Tell trifft Wagner“ wurde vor einer idyllischen Bergkulisse auf der Wald - weidli-Wiese am Seelisberg im Sommer 2013 uraufgeführt. Obwohl die – Zwischenübernachtung im Allgäu (A) Begegnung der beiden völlig fiktiv ist, verbindet sie der Ort. Richard Wag - Am Morgen fahren Sie im modernen Komfortreisebus nach Schwangau ner hatte 1855 seine erste Frau Minna hier zur Molkekur untergebracht im Allgäu. Dort besuchen Sie das Schloss Hohenschwangau, welches im und unternahm später mit der zweiten Frau Cosima Ausflüge von Luzern frühen 12. Jahrhundert ehemals als Burg Schwanstein erbaut und rund nach Seelisberg. 700 Jahre später durch den Kronprinz Maximilian von Bayern im neugoti - Nach einem gemeinsamen Mittagessen fahren Sie zurück zum Hotel. schen Stil wieder aufgebaut wurde. Schloss Hohenschwangau diente Anschließend fahren Sie zur Einführung in das Stück „Tristan und Isolde, König Maximilian II. als Sommersitz und war zugleich die Kinderstube von 2. Aufzug“ nach Tribschen (ohne örtlichen Reiseleiter). König Ludwig II. Die prachtvolle Innenausstattung aus der Biedermeierzeit ist unverändert erhalten geblieben. Als besonderes Highlight besuchen Sie am Abend das Sinfonische Konzert „Tristan und Isolde, 2. Aufzug“ in Luzern (Organisation durch den Richard- Auf Sichtweite zu Schloss Hohenschwangau befindet sich am Nachbar - Wagner-Verband Leipzig). hang das Märchenschloss Ludwigs II., Schloss Neuschwanstein. Am späten Nachmittag fahren Sie weiter nach Ohlstadt zu Ihrem Hotel 4. Tag Donnerstag, 05.09.2019 Mariefeld Alpenblick und lassen den Abend bei einem gemeinsamen Abendessen – Zwischenübernachtung in Ludwigsburg (F, M, A) gemütlich ausklingen. Am Morgen fahren Sie nach Mariafeld, dem Wohnsitz der Familie Wille. -
The Bayreuth Festspielhaus: the Metaphysical Manifestation of Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen Matthew Timmermans University of Ottawa
Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology Volume 8 | Issue 1 Article 6 The Bayreuth Festspielhaus: The Metaphysical Manifestation of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen Matthew Timmermans University of Ottawa Recommended Citation Timmermans, Matthew (2015) "The Bayreuth Festspielhaus: The Metaphysical Manifestation of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen," Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology: Vol. 8: Iss. 1, Article 6. The Bayreuth Festspielhaus: The Metaphysical Manifestation of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen Abstract This essay explores how the architectural design of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus effects the performance of Wagner’s later operas, specifically Der Ring des Nibelungen. Contrary to Wagner’s theoretical writings, which advocate equality among the various facets of operatic production (Gesamtkuntswerk), I argue that Wagner’s architectural design elevates music above these other art forms. The evidence lies within the unique architecture of the house, which Wagner constructed to realize his operatic vision. An old conception of Wagnerian performance advocated by Cosima Wagner—in interviews and letters—was consciously left by Richard Wagner. However, I juxtapose this with Daniel Barenboim’s modern interpretation, which suggests that Wagner unconsciously, or by a Will beyond himself, created Bayreuth as more than the legacy he passed on. The juxtaposition parallels the revolutionary nature of Wagner’s ideas embedded in Bayreuth’s architecture. To underscore this revolution, I briefly outline Wagner’s philosophical development, specifically the ideas he extracted from the works of Ludwig Feuerbach and Arthur Schopenhauer, further defining the focus of Wagner’s composition and performance of the music. The analysis thereby challenges the prevailing belief that Wagner intended Bayreuth and Der Ring des Nibelungen, the opera which inspired the house’s inception, to embody Gesamtkunstwerk; instead, these creations internalize the drama, allowing the music to reign supreme. -
Johannes Brahms and Hans Von Buelow
The Library Chronicle Volume 1 Number 3 University of Pennsylvania Library Article 5 Chronicle October 1933 Johannes Brahms and Hans Von Buelow Otto E. Albrecht Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/librarychronicle Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Albrecht, O. E. (1933). Johannes Brahms and Hans Von Buelow. University of Pennsylvania Library Chronicle: Vol. 1: No. 3. 39-46. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/librarychronicle/vol1/iss3/5 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/librarychronicle/vol1/iss3/5 For more information, please contact [email protected]. not later than 1487. Incidentally it may be mentioned that the Gesamtkatalog fully records a "Seitengetreuer Nach- druck" (mentioned by Proctor) as of [Strassburg, Georg Husner, um 1493/94]. The two editions (of which Dr. Ros- enbach's gift is the original) have the same number of leaves but the register of signatures is different. And now in 1933 comes the Check list of fifteenth century books in the New- berry Library, compiled by Pierce Butler, capping the struc- ture with the date given as [1488] and the printer Johann Priiss, OTHER RECENT GIFTS Through the generosity of Mr. Joseph G. Lester the Library has received a copy of Lazv Triumphant, by Violet Oakley. The first volume of this beautifully published work contains a record of the ceremonies at the unveiling of Miss Oakley's mural paintings, "The Opening of the Book of the Law," in the Supreme Court room at Harrisburg, and the artist's journal during the Disarmament Conference at Gen- eva. -
WAGNER and the VOLSUNGS None of Wagner’S Works Is More Closely Linked with Old Norse, and More Especially Old Icelandic, Culture
WAGNER AND THE VOLSUNGS None of Wagner’s works is more closely linked with Old Norse, and more especially Old Icelandic, culture. It would be carrying coals to Newcastle if I tried to go further into the significance of the incom- parable eddic poems. I will just mention that on my first visit to Iceland I was allowed to gaze on the actual manuscript, even to leaf through it . It is worth noting that Richard Wagner possessed in his library the same Icelandic–German dictionary that is still used today. His copy bears clear signs of use. This also bears witness to his search for the meaning and essence of the genuinely mythical, its very foundation. Wolfgang Wagner Introduction to the program of the production of the Ring in Reykjavik, 1994 Selma Gu›mundsdóttir, president of Richard-Wagner-Félagi› á Íslandi, pre- senting Wolfgang Wagner with a facsimile edition of the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda on his eightieth birthday in Bayreuth, August 1999. Árni Björnsson Wagner and the Volsungs Icelandic Sources of Der Ring des Nibelungen Viking Society for Northern Research University College London 2003 © Árni Björnsson ISBN 978 0 903521 55 0 The cover illustration is of the eruption of Krafla, January 1981 (Photograph: Ómar Ragnarsson), and Wagner in 1871 (after an oil painting by Franz von Lenbach; cf. p. 51). Cover design by Augl‡singastofa Skaparans, Reykjavík. Printed by Short Run Press Limited, Exeter CONTENTS PREFACE ............................................................................................ 6 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 7 BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD WAGNER ............................ 17 CHRONOLOGY ............................................................................... 64 DEVELOPMENT OF GERMAN NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS ..68 ICELANDIC STUDIES IN GERMANY ......................................... -
SOMMARIO Una Premessa Sul Puro Umano E Wagner Oggi Il Puro
SOMMARIO L'ONTOLOGIA DELL'UMANO Una premessa sul puro umano e Wagner oggi Il puro umano VII L'intreccio XVII Wagner oggi XX RICHARD WAGNER LA POETICA DEL PURO UMANO A PARIGI: BERLIOZ, LISZT, WAGNER Un intreccio affascinante La malinconia dell'essere: la poetica della Romantik 3 La cultura musicale nella Parigi degli anni Trenta, una fìtta trama di relazioni 16 Berlioz, emancipazione del parametro timbrico 33 Liszt e Chopin, ricerca strumentale e compositiva 45 Wagner, «Un musicista tedesco a Parigi» 71 IN GERMANIA, LA POETICA DEL PURO UMANO Trame di passione Le composizioni strumentali giovanili 101 Mendelssohn e gli Schumann, incomprensioni e polemiche 123 I primi abbozzi teatrali e Le fate 133 II divieto d'amare, «Canto, canto e ancora canto, o tedeschi!» 144 Rienzi, «Armi», «Bandiere», «Onore», «Libertà» 153 L'Olandese volante, «Ah! Superbo oceano!» 170 http://d-nb.info/1024420035 Tannhàuser, «Potete voi tutti scoprirmi la natura dell'amore?» 196 Lohengrin, «Mai non dovrai domandarmi» 222 I Wibelunghi, i moti rivoluzionari, L'arte e la rivoluzione, Gesù di Nazareth 2S3 SCHOPENHAUER E LE «DIVINE PARTITURE» Gli scritti e i capolavori L'arrivo in Svizzera, Wieland il fabbro, Liszt, i brani pianistici, Berlioz 269 L'opera d'arte dell'avvenire, Il giudaismo nella musica, Opera e dramma, Una comunicazione ai miei amici 290 Schopenhauer, «Mi sentii subito profondamente attratto» 314 Wesendonck-Lieder, Parigi, Rossini, Ludwig II 322 Tristan, «Naufragare / affondare / inconsapevolmente / suprema letizia!» 359 Il libro bruno, La mia vita, Il -
RICHARD WAGNER Sämtliche Werke
Musikwissenschaftliche Editionen – Jahresbericht 2007 RICHARD WAGNER Sämtliche Werke Träger: Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Richard Wagner-Gesamtausgabe e. V., Mainz. Vorsitzender: Professor Dr. Christoph-Hellmut Mahling, Mainz. Herausgegeben in Verbindung mit der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste, München. Begründet von Carl Dahlhaus. Editionsleitung: Dr. Egon Voss, München. Anschrift: Richard Wagner-Gesamtausgabe, c/o Henle-Verlag, Forstenrieder Allee 122, 81476 München Tel.: 089/7598264, Fax: 089/ 7598263, e-mail: Klaus.Doege@extern- lrz-muenchen.de, Internet: http://www.adwmainz.de. Verlag: Schott Music, Mainz. Umfang der Ausgabe: Geplant sind im Notenteil (Reihe A) 57 Teilbände, einschließlich der Kritischen Berichte, und im Dokumententeil mit den Quellen zu Wagners Arbeit an seinen Bühnenwerken (Reihe B) 12 Teilbände; erschienen sind seit 1968 47 Teilbände der Reihe A und 7 Teilbände der Reihe B sowie das Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis. Das Wagner-Briefe-Verzeichnis (Wiesbaden 1998) wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit der Richard Wagner-Gesamtausgabe erstellt. An der Richard Wagner-Gesamtausgabe arbeiten als hauptamtliche Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter Dr. Klaus Döge, Dr. Christa Jost, Dr. Peter Jost und Dr. Egon Voss (60% Teilzeit). Dr. Gabriele E. Meyer ist als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin mit 19, seit 1. Juli mit 29 Stunden, Eva Katharina Klein M. A. als geprüfte wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft mit 19 Stunden tätig. Die Editionsleitung hat weiterhin Egon Voss. Leiter der Münchner Editionsstelle ist Klaus Döge. Alle hauptamtlichen Mitarbeiter -
SCHOLARLY PROGRAM NOTES of SELECTED WORKS by LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, RICHARD WAGNER, and JAMES STEPHENSON III Jeffrey Y
Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC Research Papers Graduate School 5-2017 SCHOLARLY PROGRAM NOTES OF SELECTED WORKS BY LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, RICHARD WAGNER, AND JAMES STEPHENSON III Jeffrey Y. Chow Southern Illinois University Carbondale, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/gs_rp CLOSING REMARKS In selecting music for this program, the works had instrumentation that fit with our ensemble, the Southern Illinois Sinfonietta, yet covering three major periods of music over just a little more than the past couple of centuries. As composers write more and more for a chamber ensemble like the musicians I have worked with to carry out this performance, it becomes more and more idiomatic for conductors like myself to explore their other compositions for orchestra, both small and large. Having performed my recital with musicians from both the within the Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Music core and from the outside, this entire community has helped shaped my studies & my work as a graduate student here at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, bringing it all to a glorious end. Recommended Citation Chow, Jeffrey Y. "SCHOLARLY PROGRAM NOTES OF SELECTED WORKS BY LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, RICHARD WAGNER, AND JAMES STEPHENSON III." (May 2017). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Papers by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. -
From Page to Stage: Wagner As Regisseur
Wagner Ia 5/27/09 3:55 PM Page 3 Copyrighted Material From Page to Stage: Wagner as Regisseur KATHERINE SYER Nowadays we tend to think of Richard Wagner as an opera composer whose ambitions and versatility extended beyond those of most musicians. From the beginning of his career he assumed the role of his own librettist, and he gradually expanded his sphere of involvement to include virtually all aspects of bringing an opera to the stage. If we focus our attention on the detailed dramatic scenarios he created as the bases for his stage works, we might well consider Wagner as a librettist whose ambitions extended rather unusually to the area of composition. In this light, Wagner could be considered alongside other theater poets who paid close attention to pro- duction matters, and often musical issues as well.1 The work of one such figure, Eugène Scribe, formed the foundation of grand opera as it flour- ished in Paris in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Wagner arrived in this operatic epicenter in the fall of 1839 with work on his grand opera Rienzi already under way, but his prospects at the Opéra soon waned. The following spring, Wagner sent Scribe a dramatic scenario for a shorter work hoping that the efforts of this famous librettist would help pave his way to success. Scribe did not oblige. Wagner eventually sold the scenario to the Opéra, but not before transforming it into a markedly imaginative libretto for his own use.2 Wagner’s experience of operatic stage produc- tion in Paris is reflected in many aspects of the libretto of Der fliegende Holländer, the beginning of an artistic vision that would draw him increas- ingly deeper into the world of stage direction and production. -
Richard Wagner in Der Schweiz (1849-1858) Als Künstler Und Mensch Zu Den Prägends- Die Von Wagners Schaffen Am Bühnenwerk Ten Seines Lebens Gehörten
Richard Wagner in der Schweiz (1849-1858) als Künstler und Mensch zu den prägends- die von Wagners Schaffen am Bühnenwerk ten seines Lebens gehörten. Zürich wurde „Tristan und Isolde – Handlung in drei Auf- zu einem „Versuchsfeld“, wo vorhandene zügen“, geprägt waren, welche er erstmalig in Ideen ausreiften, neue entstanden und um- einem Brief an Franz Liszt 1854 erwähnte. gesetzt werden konnten. Wagner dirigierte Am 17. August 1858, noch vor Minna Wag- und schrieb in rascher Folge kunsttheoreti- ner, verlässt der Komponist Zürich fluchtar- sche Schriften, Dramentexte und Komposi- tig und gleichsam fragmentarisch, denn so- tionen. Im Mai 1853 fanden hier die ersten wohl der „Ring“ als auch der „Tristan“ er- Wagner-Festspiele überhaupt statt. lebten ihre Vollendung anderswo. Aber von Die Ausstellung stand unter der Schirm- Zürich nahm Richard Wagner noch die Idee herrschaft von Dr. Peter Stüber, Honorar- zum Bühnenwerk „Parsifal“ mit. konsul der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Selten gezeigte Handschriften, rare No- Zürich, und wurde im Rahmen der Zürcher tendrucke, Alltagsgegenstände wie Wagners Festspiele 2008 eröffnet. Gleich zu Beginn Stoffmuster, sein Schreibpult oder sein gol- sieht der Besucher hautnah den Grund für dener Federhalter, sowie Bilder und Musik- Wagners Flucht nach Zürich uns Exil, die instrumente lassen den Besucher in die Zeit Dresdner Holzbarrikaden des gescheiterten des großen Künstlers und Komponisten ein- Aufstandes im Mai 1849. Klaus Dröge, der tauchen, wobei die thematisch und optisch in der Begleitpublikation eine interessan- perfekte Darstellung der Ausstellungsgegen- ten Aufsatz unter dem Titel „Richard Wag- stände beeindruckte. Einige, die in direktem ners Schaffen in Zürich: Ein Überblick“ ge- Zusammenhang mit Wagners Zeit in Zürich schrieben hat, unterteilt die Zürcher Jah- stehen, sollen kurz hervorgehoben werden.