Wagner in Performance

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Wagner in Performance is written by Jean-Jacques Nattiez and published by Yale University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300057180 (ISBN 10) and 9780300057188 (ISBN 13).

This book, addressed to both specialists and the opera-going public, brings together a team of acknowledged authorities from round the world to examine the performance history and reception of Wagner's works in Europe and America. A connected sequence of essays on conducting, singing, production and stage design explores the nature of Wagner's demands on his interpreters. The book raises questions about the realization of opera on the stage: about the authority of the composer vis-a-vis the director and the audience: about the sanctity of the text, score and stage directions; and about the role of art itself in society.