A kingdom not of this world : Wagner, the arts, and utopian visions in fin-de-siècle Vienna / by Karnes, Kevin, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Fin-de-siècle Vienna and the utopian imagination -- Max Klinger, the Gesamtkunstwerk, and the dream of a third kingdom -- "All of Vienna has become secessionistic" : longings of an organization -- Dreams of transcendence, fantasies of control : Gustav Klimt -- The sacred spring of Arnold Schoenberg and Alexander Zemlinsky -- Gustav Mahler and the promise of return.…”
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Wagner and the art of the theatre / by Carnegy, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Wagner and the theatre of the early nineteenth century -- The art of the future--by royal command -- Staging the ring at Bayreuth -- Parsifal and beyond -- The inheritors : Cosima and Siegfried Wagner, Gustav Mahler and Alfred Roller -- Adolphe Appia : the opened eye of the score -- Wagner in Russia, 1890-1940 -- Travail and truth : Klemperer and the Kroll opera -- Wieland Wagner : opera as mystery play -- The political imperative -- Our uncomfortable contemporary.…”