The Importance of Being Unfaithful to Wagner
Edward Said, 11 February 1993
Wagner in Performance
edited by Barry Millington and Stewart Spencer.
Yale, 214 pp., £19.95, July 1992,0 300 05718 0 Show More
edited by Barry Millington and Stewart Spencer.
Yale, 214 pp., £19.95, July 1992,
Wagner: Race and Revolution
by Paul Lawrence Rose.
Faber, 304 pp., £20, June 1992,9780571164653 Show More
by Paul Lawrence Rose.
Faber, 304 pp., £20, June 1992,
Wagner Handbook
edited by Ulrich Müller and Peter Wapnewski, translated by John Deathridge.
Harvard, 711 pp., £27.50, October 1992,0 674 94530 1 Show More
edited by Ulrich Müller and Peter Wapnewski, translated by John Deathridge.
Harvard, 711 pp., £27.50, October 1992,
Richard Wagner’s Visit to Rossini and An Evening at Rossini’s in Beau-Séjour
by Edmond Michotte, translated by Herbert Weinstock.
Quartet, 144 pp., £12.95, November 1992,9780704370319 Show More
by Edmond Michotte, translated by Herbert Weinstock.
Quartet, 144 pp., £12.95, November 1992,
“... on conventional, particularly Italian and French opera (Rossini’s excepted, as the charming Michotte work makes clear), or his absurdly grandiose revolutionary proclamations. The question therefore isn’t so much finding the one thing about Wagner that commands all the others, but of learning somehow to discriminate, make judgments, and criticise him ... ”
