TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thielemann,Christian
TI  - My life with Wagner: fairies, rings, and redemption : exploring opera's most enigmatic composer 
SN  - 9781681771250
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pegasus Books
KW  - Wagner, Richard,
KW  - Thielemann, Christian,
N1  - Originally published in English: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015; Translated from German: Mein leben mit Wagner. München : C.H. Beck, 2012; Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254) and index; I. "You haven't been playing the organ, have you?": my way to Wagner -- II. Wagner;s cosmos -- 1. Wagalaweia and Hojotoho!: a first approach to Wagner's music drama -- 2. "If you weren't all such tedious fellows": Wagner and his conductors -- 3. Cobwebs, solemnity, sausage salad: Bayreuth and its Green Hill -- 4. A very German subject: the ideological aspect -- 5. "If we want Wagner, then Wagner is what we want", or: what makes a good performance? -- 6. Money or love: Wagner for beginners -- III. Wagner's music drama -- 1. Die Feen (The Fairies): a first look inside Wagner's botanizing drum -- 2. A sin of Wagner's youth and a hymn to Carnival: Das Liebesverbot oder Die Novize von Palermo (The ban on love, or The novice of Palermo) -- 3. Defeating grand opera with its own weapons: Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the last of the Tribunes) -- 4. Plain, meagre, gloomy?: Der fliegende Holländer, oder der Fluch des Willens (The flying Dutchman, or The curse of the will) -- 5. Tannhäuser und der S̈ngerkrieg auf der Wartburg (Tannhäuser and the singers' contest on the Wartburg): the art of moderation and Wagner's failure to achieve it -- 6. A floodlight on the world beyond, love without regret: Lohengrin -- 7. Tristan und Isolde: the chord of life -- 8. A plea for tolerance: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The mastersingers of Nuremberg) -- 9. Money, power or love? Painting the world in sunset colours: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The ring of the Nibelung) -- 10. An anti-Tristan composed in violet ink: Parsifal
N2  - "This book is based on conversations that took place between August 2010 and July 2011 in Bayreuth, Berlin, Salzburg and on the Attersee"--Acknowledgements (page 252)
ER  -