Wagner’s engagement with religion - Buddhist as well as Christian - reaches a climax with Parsifal. Box 9 Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and Richard Wagner’s Parsifal (1882) remains an inexhaustible yet highly controversial work.This “stage consecration festival play,” as the composer described it, represents the culmination of his efforts to bring medieval myth and modern music together in a dynamic relationship. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620-2731 and P.O. In any case, this volume offers the quintessential model.” - Dieter Borchmeyer, Professor of German and Theater, Ruprechts-Karl-Universität Heidelberg, author of Drama and the World of Richard Wagner, and President of the Bavarian Academy of the Arts.Įdited by Kinderman and Syer I SBN 1 -5 7113 -2 37 -6Ħ68 Mt. It would really be a scholarly utopia to hope that now, as a result, all of Wagner’s dramas would receive such all-embracing treatment. This revealing book targets Wagner’s last creation, his ‘departure from the world.’ Here at last is a volume that does justice to the musical as well as the poetic dimensions of Parsifal the literary sources and precedents, the synthesis of art and religion, the musical genesis and structure, its ideological resonances and reception, and the stage history are all explored and analyzed. For no other Wagnerian music drama is there a comparable compendium, which insightfully probes all aspects of the work in a comprehensive way. Syer’s A Companion to Wagner’s Parsifal is unique in the current literature on Wagner.
William Kinderman and Katherine Syer teach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and often lead study seminars during the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany. McGlathery, Ulrike Kienzle, Warren Darcy, Roger Allen.
Contributors: William Kinderman, Katherine R.
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