LEITURAS SOBRE RICHARD WAGNER...

Uma interessante publicação de 2015...

MY LIFE WITH WAGNER by Christian Thielemann 
Wagner is venerated and reviled. How do we deal with his notorious anti-Semitism and his savagery of Mendelssohn’s music?  Whenever something went wrong he would blame the Jews. But can Wagner be blamed for the fact thatRieziand Lohengrin were Hitler’s favourite operas and that the music from The Mastersingers was played at the Nazi rallies in Nuremberg. 
Diz-nos Thielemann:
“I can’t hold Wagner musically responsible for the misuse of his works by the Nazis,”
Também nos diz outras coisas mais polémicas..., como refere a nota do site da AMAZON.
«...the German conductor, who thinks only German speakers with a native-level understanding should perform Wagner.»
Mas enfim, nos gostamos de polémicas. 

Notas em inglês retiradas do site da AMAZON.

Richard Wagner e o Amor...

Livros sobre Richard Wagner:

De Barrie Emslie
Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love

Aqui o link para ler parte do livro on-line...

 http://books.google.pt/books?id=Mo3U9XdAwmAC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&dq=richard+wagner+hinduism&source=bl&ots=f8lobKjldz&sig=Fl4PqUvYpH2bCLLTNJ0O1-bp_qg&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=52stU6HlI-rX7AbH-YGwBg&sqi=2&ved=0CG4Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=richard%20wagner%20hinduism&f=false

Wagner e os Judeus

À esquerda, Richard Wagner and the Jews.A obra foi publicada em 2006, pela MacFarland. O autor é Milton E. Brener.

http://books.google.pt/books?id=C6E_y1bESBYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

    
Em baixo, mais uma caricatura do lado anti-semita do grande compositor, num desenho bem oitocentista. Em baixo também, o link para um artigo sobre o anti-semitismo do compositor....

http://www.jstandard.com/index.php/content/item/richard_wagner/

Novidades Bibliográficas sobre Wagner - III

Não li, mas as referências parecem ser muito boas.

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520254534

John Deathridge presents a different and critical view of Richard Wagner based on recent research (...) about this most controversial of composers in the canon of Western music. Deathridge writes authoritatively on what Wagner did, said, and wrote, drawing from abundant material already well known but also from less familiar sources, including hitherto seldom discussed letters and diaries and previously unpublished musical sketches. At the same time, Deathridge suggests that a true estimation of Wagner does not lie in an all too easy condemnation of his many provocative actions and ideas. Rather, it is to be found in the questions about the modern world and our place in it posed by the best of his stage works, among them Tristan und Isolde and Der Ring des Nibelungen. Controversy about Wagner is unlikely to go away, but rather than taking the line of least resistance by regarding him blandly as a "classic" in the Western art tradition, Deathridge suggests that we need to confront the debates that have raged about him and reach beyond them, toward a fresh and engaging assessment of what he ultimately achieved.

Heróis e heroinas wagnerianas

Siegmund, Albert Niemann

Sobre os heróis e heroinas wagnerianas há muito a dizer.
Veja-se, por exemplo, o interessante artigo, num site belga,  dedicado a Wagner, o The Wagner Library, http://users.belgacom.net/wagnerlibrary/ .

Some of Wagner's Heroes and Heroines,
William F. Apthorp.

http://users.belgacom.net/wagnerlibrary/articles/scrib0503.htm

Richard Wagner nas novidades bibliográficas II

http://www.abe.pl/html/samples/b/0691114978.pdf
O endereço é o de um capítulo de uma obra sobre Richard Wagner, de Dieter Borchmeyer.

Drama and the World of Richard Wagner
Translated by Daphne Ellis

Chapter 1


LOVE'S MADNESS, FAIRY-TALE ENCHANTMENT, AND A SICILIAN CARNIVAL
DIE HOCHZEIT, DIE FEEN, AND DAS LIEBESVERBOT


We must seize our chance and honestly seek to cultivate the age's new forms, and he will be its master who writes in neither an Italian nor a French--nor even in a German--style.


--Richard Wagner, "German Opera" (1834)
 

Richard Wagner nas novidades bibliográficas I

Novidades bibliográficas
De Nila Parly:
Vocal Victories: Wagner's Female Characters from Senta to Kundry

Pode ler-se em http://www.isbs.com/partnumber.asp?cid=27394&pnid=303303:

«Vocal Victories is the first musicological comparison of all of Richard Wagner's great female characters, from Senta in The Flying Dutchman to Kundry in Parsifal. It has long been customary to view these and other opera heroines as victims, because these women, as a rule, perish during the plot of the opera. A closer study of the music of the women - their singing and the orchestral voices that surround them - reveals, however, that it is in the female characters that the new and groundbreaking musical material comes into being, and that the women are far more in command of the development of the works. Vocal Victories claims that Wagner was far ahead of his time in terms of equality between the sexes, and the musicological analyses are supported by quotations from the composer's own writings, so that a picture of Wagner as a radical critic of the oppressive patriarchal society emerges clearly and unmistakably. The feminist approach to the material also provides an opportunity for new aesthetical and musical readings of the works - readings which have been characterized as breaking new ground in Wagnerian research.»