Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Paperback)

Introduction Arthur Groos; Synopsis: Wagner's prose draft (1857); 1. Public and private life: on the genesis of Tristan und Isolde and the Wesendonck Lieder John Deathridge; 2. Between memory and desire: Wagner's libretto and late Romantic subjectivity Arthur Groos; 3. The Prelude and the play Joseph Kerman; 4. In the realm of the senses: sight, sound, and the music of desire in Tristan und Isolde Thomas Grey; 5. A mantle of sound for the night: timbre in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde Jurgen Maehder; 6. Staging Tristan Stewart Spencer; 7. Tristan's traces Steven Huebner; Select bilbiography.