Spiritual Succor or Sacrilege? British Catholic Responses to and Interpretations of Wagner's Parsifal

Scholarly knowledge about the interplay of Wagnerian opera and British church history has advanced on an uneven front and has yet to reach lofty heights. Relatively little has been published about how Parsifal, Richard Wagner’s final and arguably most religious opera, was perceived in the United Kin...

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Главный автор: Hale, Frederick (Автор)
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Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: The Catholic University of America Press 2024
В: The catholic historical review
Год: 2024, Том: 110, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 21-46
Другие ключевые слова:B Parsifal
B British Catholicism
B Covent Garden
B Richard Wagner
B Opera
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Итог:Scholarly knowledge about the interplay of Wagnerian opera and British church history has advanced on an uneven front and has yet to reach lofty heights. Relatively little has been published about how Parsifal, Richard Wagner’s final and arguably most religious opera, was perceived in the United Kingdom. The present study begins to fill that gap by investigating how a spectrum of British Catholics diversely debated such crucial themes as the extent to which Parsifal was a Christian work, the possible mimesis of the Mass in the Holy Grail scenes, the construction of the title character as a symbolic Christ figure, and whether the staging of this work, whose spiritual content was widely acknowledged, could appropriately be performed in a secular setting like the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.
ISSN:1534-0708
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: The catholic historical review