Music Aesthetics 2 (Michela Garda) Myth in Wagner`s Das

Music Aesthetics 2
(Michela Garda)
Myth in Wagner’s Das Rheingold
The course will offer an interpretative analysis of Rheingold in the context of Wagner’s writings and of the
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discussion about the concept of myth in 19 century. A detailed bibliography will be available at the
beginning of the class. Students are required to be familiar with the libretto and the music with the help of
one annotated edition indicated in the following reading list.
Bibliography
L’Or du Rhin, “Avant-Scène Opéra”, 227, 2005;
Das Rheingold, “La Fenice prima dell’opera”, 2011, 3 (http://www.teatrolafenice.it/libretti.php);
Das Rheingold libretto, trad. it. Di Franco Serpa, motivi conduttori di Raffaele Mellace
(http://www.teatroallascala.org/ring/opere/das-rheingold.html);
W. DARCY, Wagner’s ‘Das Rheingold’, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1993;
M. EWANS, Wagner and Aeschylus: The Ring and Oresteia, London, Faber and Faber 1982;
T. GREY (ed. by), The Cambridge Companion to Wagner, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2008.