Abstract
[Autom. eng. transl.] A new concept of orchestra. Few arias. Many monologues. Sixteen hours of music. Four works. Twenty-six years to complete them. It is the Ring of the Nibelung, the most monumental feat that a composer has ever dared to conceive. Yet it is possible to face it, enjoy it, listen to it. This book is a new guide to listening to the Tetralogy, a great work on the Opera: Gastón Fournier-Facio and Alessandro Gamba explore the Wagnerian universes, weaving a work-world where the immense music flows from the page, intertwined with the poem and to the story of the authors, who here pierce the two-dimensionality of the text, revealing the philosophical references that represented the fundamental substratum for Wagner.
Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] The beginning and end of the world. New guide to Richard Wagner's Ring |
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Original language | Italian |
Publisher | il Saggiatore |
Number of pages | 576 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-88-428-1890-8 |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- "Der Ring des Nibelungen"
- Bayreuth
- Goethe, J.W.
- Nietzsche, F.
- Schopenhauer, A.
- Wagner, R.
- drammaturgia
- germanesimo
- musica
- opera