Operatics

Contents Preface by the author I The Opera Principle Total Commitment The Phenomenon of the Opera Is Opera Poison or Nourishment? In His Existential Crisis Conversation Between Siblings Opera Scene that Makes Me Cry Rules for Crying Godard's Fragment Correct Slowing-Down on the Transitional Point ... Weren't They Glad to Be Liberated? The Scapegoat Principle Rachel in La Juive A Relationship between Two Women The Opera with Two Roles for High Tenors The Heroine of the Third Volume ... Silk-Road-Inspired Opera Project The Aging Singer Stood upon the Stage Nearly Every Night They Expected an Air Raid II "In the First Act I Can't Know the Awful Denouement in the Fifth Act" Conversation with the Kammersänger Napoleon and Love Love, Recognizable The Great Welaschka Moment of Decision The Death of Wieland Wagner NORMA, an Agglomeration of Magnanimity A German Philosopher in Persia "Take the violinist on the sinking liner ..." IV Reality Challenges Theater for Top Billing Snow on a Copper Roof Commitment to a Colleague with a Sore Throat The Iron Ring that Conquered the Cliff Reality Challenges Theater for Top Billing Sunday August 4, 2013, Elmau Night of Decisions Lament of the Goods Left on the Shelf Alcina's Implacable Sadness Lament for the Death of the Improbable The Resurrection of Musical Theater V "When We Were Still Reptiles, We Did Not Have Feelings" Small-Statured Woman in High-Heeled Shoes Is Revolution Founded on Work or Ideas? The Complete Version of a Baroque Idea A Second Titanic Cavalleria Rusticana, an Opera about Strangers' Lives The Forgetful Diva In August 1940, the Chance of Victory Had Already Been Squandered Hitler's Favorite Operetta: The Merry Widow "When I see you, I must weep" Appearance and Reality in the Operetta The Bandits (Jacques Offenbach) My Passion Burns Hotter than Goulash Nothing but Music between Body and Mind The Impotence of an Ordinary Understanding An Emotional Weapon of Terror Dark Tidings from Days of Splendor "How Much Blood and Horror Lies ..." Verdi. Rigoletto or La Maledizione. Genealogy Rigoletto, the Gnome Xaver Holtzmann's Project:"Imaginary Opera Guide" Disarmament of Tragic Action The Theatrical Demolition Expert A Society Does Itself Honor Walter Benjamin Comes to Halberstadt III Fatal Vocal Force vs. Generosity in the Opera A Resolute Voice Can Kill Remarks by Adolf Hitler Intermezzo for Big Singing Machines Lohengrin in Leningrad Götterdämmerung in Vienna In the Last Year of His Life VI Blast Furnaces of the Soul One Morning, Seven Days after my Fifth Birthday Following the Voice Where It Wishes to Go "It was one romantic relationship, no superfluous words" "Temples of Seriousness" Santuzza and Turiddu Nights in Empty Opera Houses Madame Butterfly's Happier Cousin Misunderstanding between Two Worlds The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Renunciation Why Cinema Was Unable ... An Archeologist of Opera "A Scarecrow of Religious Fury" Can Hearts Set Buildings on Fire? The Fire at the Ringtheater When the Audience Heard the Familiar Melody Death of a Thousand Souls Phoenix from the Ashes War in the Huts The Contrat Social of Families "Blast Furnaces of the Soul" Medea's Decision The Troublesome Sister The Aggressive Gaze of Blood Love as a Hard Laborer Flu at the Opera The Original Form of Opera A New Type of Opera in Vienna Plato's Ban on Music Lost Sketch by John Cage "Infiltration of a Love" "Oh My Heart, this Thunder-Sheet" Copyright