Table of Contents

"Climbing Mount Everest": On Conducting Die Meistersinger - Peter Schneider
"We Must Finally Stop Apologizing for Die Meistersinger!": A Conversation with Harry Kupfer - Harry Kupfer
Richard Wagner's Cobbler Poet - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The Dangers of Satisfaction: On Songs, Rehearsals, and Repetition in Die Meistersinger -
Stereoscopic Vision: Sight and Community in Die Meistersinger - Lutz Koepnick
"The Most German of All German Operas": Die Meistersinger through the Lens of the Third Reich - David B. Dennis
http://worldwidewagner.richard.de: An Interview with the Composer concerning History, Nation, and Die Meistersinger - Peter Höyng
Die Meistersinger as Comedy: The Performative and Social Signification of Genre - Klaus van den Berg
Masters and Their Critics: Wagner, Hanslick, Beckmesser, and Die Meistersinger - Thomas Grey
"Du warst mein Feind von je": The Beckmesser Controversy Revisited - Hans Rudolf Vaget
"I Married Eva": Gender Construction and Die Meistersinger - Eva Rieger

About the Author

EVA RIEGER is professor emeritus in historical musicology at the University of Bremen. HANS RUDOLF VAGET is Professor Emeritus of German Studies at Smith College, MA. PETER HÖYNG is Professor of German at Emory University.

Reviews

Intellectually speaking, this is a delicious tome . . . an indispensable book. Vazsonyi, Rochester University Press, and the individual essayists are to be roundly congratulated on an outstanding contribution to Wagnerian scholarship. WAGNER NOTES, Wagner Society of NY
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This superb volume of essays . . . [is] the best ever published on 'Die Meistersinger' . . . a book that demands to be read by anyone interested in the politics of opera.
*BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE*

A wonderfully wide-reaching introduction to the extensive field of 'Meistersinger' scholarship.
*CHOICE*

Nicholas Vazsonyi has organized a collection of new writings whose eleven authors keep the reader up to date with this abundant literature. More than that, the diverse contributors he has chosen complement one another . . . what results is a book that fulfills its underlying interdisciplinary aim. For readers seriously interested in Wagner it will be both instructive and absorbing.
*THE OPERA*

Nicholas Vazsonyi has assembled a collection of essays that deal with aspects of the opera not necessarily addressed elsewhere, affirming the continuing relevance of the work. This book offers a collection of interdisciplinary studies that should supplement some of the more traditional literature on this seminal work by Wagner.
*MONATSHEFTE, 2006*