Showing posts with label Ludwig Feuerbach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ludwig Feuerbach. Show all posts
Wednesday, 15 July 2020

Wagner and Feuerbach

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(Article, ‘Feuerbach’, first published in The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia , ed. Nicholas Vazsonyi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...
Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Aspects of Wagnerian Love: Sister, Bride, Wife and Son

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(originally published as a programme note to a Salzburg Festival Concert, August 2013: programme details below)   Richard Wagner (1813–1...
Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Norman Tebbit, Wagnerian? Or, Der Ring des Nibelungen: Love versus Inheritance

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For the (dubious) benefit of overseas readers, who may until now have been living in blissful ignorance of Lord Tebbit of Chingford, h...
Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Writing the 'Ring'

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‘Yes, I should like to perish in Valhalla’s flames ! — Mark well my new poem — it contains the beginning of the world and its destruction!’...
Saturday, 22 September 2012

On the anniversary of the first performance of Das Rheingold...

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... and two days before the Ring opens at Covent Garden. (Alas, I have been unable to acquire tickets, but look forward to hearing from tho...
Thursday, 9 August 2012

Looking forward to Parsifal at Bayreuth (VI)

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Wagner wishes to use Christian myth and Christian history to correct their errors. Thus Cosima records: ‘Much about church and state; he ...
Friday, 17 December 2010

Owing the World a Tannhäuser

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 Sándor Liezen-Mayer,  Venus and Tannhäuser , c .1875 (Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest)  (originally published as a programme ...