| Richard Wagner and Festival Theatre Contributor(s): Williams, Simon (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0275936082 ISBN-13: 9780275936082 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1994 Annotation: In contrast to most books on Richard Wagner, this biography focuses primarily on Wagner as an important figure in the development of the theatre. While his contribution to music history has been exhaustively documented and analyzed, his theatrical ventures, in particular the founding of the Bayreuth Festival, have not been the object of much research by English-speaking theatre historians. Nevertheless, the Festival was a crucial event in the development of the European theatre as it established the paradigm for all modern theatre and music festivals, while the Festival Theatre itself has provided the most widely imitated architectural configuration in 20th-century theatre building. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Music - Performing Arts | Theater - General |
| Dewey: 782.109 |
| LCCN: 93034081 |
| Lexile Measure: 1440 |
| Series: Lives of the Theatre |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6" W x 9" (0.61 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In contrast to most books on Richard Wagner, this biography focuses primarily on Wagner as an important figure in the development of the theatre. While his contribution to music history has been exhaustively documented and analyzed, his theatrical ventures, in particular the founding of the Bayreuth Festival, have not been the object of much research by English-speaking theatre historians. Nevertheless, the Festival was a crucial event in the development of the European theatre: while Bayreuth established the paradigm for all modern theatre and music festivals, the Festival Theatre itself has provided the most widely imitated architectural configuration in twentieth-century theatre building. |
