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...
| Published in: | The catholic historical review |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Catholic University of America Press
2024
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The catholic historical review
Year: 2024, Volume: 110, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-46 |
| Further subjects: | B
Parsifal
B British Catholicism B Covent Garden B Richard Wagner B Opera |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-0708 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
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