Vocal Victories: Wagner's Female Characters from Senta to Kundry
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Vocal Victories: Wagner's Female Characters from Senta to Kundry

Vocal Victories: Wagner's Female Characters from Senta to Kundry

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Nila Parly (Author)  

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This book is the first musicological comparison of all of Richard Wagner's great female characters. It has long been customary to view them and other opera heroines as victims, because the women, as a rule, perish during the plot of the opera. A closer study of the music of the women 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 than a superficial view will show. The book claims that Wagner was far ahead of his time in terms of equality between the sexes, and the musicological analyses are supported by the composer's own writings.
Nila Parly, Ph.D. is a research fellow at the University of Copenhagen. She has also been trained as an opera singer at the musical academy 'Santa Cecilia' in Rome.
  • Contributor: Nila Parly
  • Imprint: Museum Tusculanum Press
  • ISBN13: 9788763507714
  • Number of Pages: 431
  • Packaged Dimensions: 17x25x3mm
  • Packaged Weight: 992
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
  • Release Date: 2011-02-09
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Nila Parly, Ph.D. is a research fellow at the University of Copenhagen. She has also been trained as an opera singer at the musical academy 'Santa Cecilia' in Rome.

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