Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Part I. A Few Beginnings
5. 1. Wagner Lives 3
6. 2. “Pale” Senta 18
7. 3. Wagner the Progressive 31
8. Part II. Der Ring des Nibelungen
9. 4. Fairy Tale, Revolution, Prophecy 47
10. 5. Symphonic Mastery or Moral Anarchy? 54
11. 6. Siegfried Hero 61
12. 7. Finishing the End 68
13. Part III. The Elusiveness of Tragedy
14. 8. Don Carlos and Götterdämmerung 79
15. 9. Wagner’s Greeks, and Wieland’s Too 102
16. Part IV. Tristan und Isolde
17. 10. Dangerous Fascinations 113
18. 11. Public and Private Life 117
19. 12. Postmortem on Isolde 133
20. Part V. Mature Polemics
21. 13. Strange Love, Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Parsifal 159
22. 14. Mendelssohn and the Strange Case of the (Lost) Symphony in C 178
23. 15. Unfinished Symphonies 189
24. Part VI. Operatic Futures
25. 16. Configurations of the New 209
26. 17. Wagner and Beyond 227
27. Abbreviations 241
28. Notes 243
29. Acknowledgments 283
30. Index 285