Wagner's Mature Music-Dramas (Tristan and Isolde, the Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and Parsifal) in Light of Their Allegorical Relationship to the Ring

by Paul Brian Heise

Scholars devoted to analysis of Richard Wagner's operas and music-dramas have long noted his numerous comparisons between their characters and plots in his letters, essays, and recorded remarks. Yet no one has previously attempted to assess their implications for our systematic understanding of his art. Following Heise's allegorical interpretation of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, The Wound That Will Never Heal (Academica Press, 2021), this second...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680532928
• ISBN13: 9781680532920
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Academica Press
• Length: 300 Pages