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Richard Strauss : the staging of his operas and ballets / Rudolf Hartmann.

Author/creator Hartmann, Rudolf, 1900-1988
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 1981, ©1980.
Description280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Subject(s)
Uniform titleRichard Strauss, die Bühnenwerke von der Uraufführung bis heute. English
Contents Guntram -- Feuersnot -- Salome -- Elektra -- Der Rosenkavalier -- Ariadne auf Naxos -- Josephslegende -- Die Frau ohne Schatten -- Schlagobers -- Verklungene Fests -- Intermezzo -- Die ägyptische Helena -- Arabella -- Die schweigsame Frau -- Friedenstag -- Daphne -- Die Liebe der danae -- Capriccio.
Abstract The author, a personal friend of the composer, himself produced three first performances and was for many years the Director of the Bavarian State Opera, Munich, considered the home of Strauss opera. In 1948, Strauss himself wrote to Hartmann, "The book about directing and staging opera still remains to be written and that must be done by Rudolf Hartmann, the Stanislavsky and the Reinhardt of opera... So, to work, begin!" With this book--unique in the literature on Strauss--Hartmann has at long last complied with the maestro's request. The volume treats all of Strauss's dramatic works--fifteen operas and two ballets--from the first performance to those of today. Some three hundred illustrations, many of them never before published, comprise a graphic survey of the development of sets at well-known international performance. Wherever possible, the illustrations show the first performance and premiere as well as the work's evolution through the various stages: the period after World War I, shortly before 1933 (when Strauss was about seventy years old), and after the Second World War. The history of the individual works is based on a thorough examination of the sources, some hitherto unknown. Hartmann frequently quotes both the composer and the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The producers' and librettists' directions and comments illustrate the tasks involved in staging a work. A short synopsis of each work helps to make it comprehensible to the reader.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliogrpahical referenes (page 272) and index.
LCCN 80001215
ISBN0195202511

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML410.S912 H3 1981 ✔ Available Place Hold