Telramund's despair and then with Elsa's ecstatic contemplation of union with Lohengrin, which Ortrud will help to destroy, clearly anticipates the mature music drama that Wagner would embark upon during the 1850s.
NOTES
1
Oswald Georg Bauer, The Stage Designs and Productions from the Premidres to
the Present, trans. Peter Loeffler ( Basel: Birkhäuser, 1982), 50 (henceforward, BaRW).
2
Ernest Newman, The Life of Richard Wagner 4 vols. ( New York: Knopf, 1933 1946), I: 369 (henceforward NLRW).
3
Devrient, Geschichte, II, 186-197.
4
E. T.A. Hoffmann, Seltsame Leiden eines Theater-Direktors, ed.
Hans-Joachim Kruse
( Berlin: Aufbau, 1977), 357-473.
5
Oscar Fambach, Das Repertorium des Stadttheaters zu Leipzig, 1817-1828
( Bonn: Bouvier, 1980).
6
Robert Prölss, Geschichte des Hoftheaters zu Dresden ( Dresden: Baensch, 1878), 616-648.
7
Richard Wagner's Briefe an Theodor Uhlig, Wilhelm Fischer, Ferdinand Heine
( Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1888).
8
Csampai and
Holland, eds., Der fliegende Holländer, 112-115.
9
Paul Bekker, Richard Wagner: His Life in His Work, trans.
M. M. Bozeman
( Freeport: Books Libraries, 1931), 143 (henceforward BeRW).
10
Hector Berlioz, The Memoirs, trans.
David Cairns ( London: Panther, 1970), 369.
11
Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed.
John N. Burk ( New York:
Macmillan, 1950), 136.
12
Carl Dahlhaus, Richard Wagner's Music Dramas, trans.
Mary Whittall ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), 27-34.
13
Attila Csampai and
Dietmar Holland, eds., Tannhauser: Texte, Materialien,
Kommentare ( Hamburg: Ricordi, 1986), 121.
14
Wagner-Liszt Briefwechsel, I, 75 ( WLB).
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Place of publication: Westport, CT.
Publication year: 1994.
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