TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Foreword xi
Preface xv
Family Tree xviii
Introduction: Bayreuth and the Wagners 1 PART ONE: WAGNER'S THEATRE
1 Wandering Jew or Exploiter? -- thoughts on the Dutchman 17
2 'Without any comfortable intermediate stage' -- Tannhäuser 23
3 The universal poetry of Lohengrin 38
4 Incest in The Ring 57
5 The 'Blissful Union': Wotan and Brünnhilde 71
6 The Twice-Solitary Death in Tristan 79
7 Folly and Wit in Die Meistersinger 86
8 'No change will come to our Western art': New Bayreuth as waste disposal plant 102
9 A Tragedy of Understanding: Parsifal and anti-Semitism in fin de siècle Vienna 117
10 Disquiet about Parsifal 129 PART TWO: THE THEATRE OF THE WAGNERS
11 Wieland Wagner: a 'negative' life 145
12 'To us, he wasn't the Führer at all' -- the enigma of Winifred Wagner 151
13 The Wagner Family and its Home 165
14 1874-1930: the first generation at Wahnfried 179
15 1930-51: the deaths of Cosima and Siegfried to the post-war festival 208
16 1951-66: the reign of the brothers 232
17 1966-80: Wolfgang and the next generation 257
18 1980-90: after the death of Winifred 280
19 1990-2000: the battle for the succession 296
Index 309
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