10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMFORTAS»
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Amfortas in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Marya's article in The Journal of the PMLA caught him up into a spirited
exchange of letters with other respondents to the piece on Merlin, among who
were members of Amfortas. Within several years, he had formally * * * Lancelot
was a huge ...
2
Operatic Subjects: The Evolution of Self in Modern Opera
These are conflicting aspects of human nature necessarily present both in
Klingsor's world and in Amfortas's. Wagner identifies both Apollonian and
Dionysian elements in Amfortas's Christian knighthood, implying that Apollonian
...
The peace that Amfortas is praying for is the peace of death. The longing for
death, a suicidal longing certainly, remains clearly and repeatedly present in the
character of Amfortas. His repeated pleas for death probably reflect Wagner's
most ...
John Louis DiGaetani, 2003
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The Mysteries of the Holy Grail: From Arthur and Parzival to ...
15. Acknowledging. Amfortas. Extract from a lecture given in Berlin on 2 July
1913 For me the following is a key passage in its absolute relevance to modern,
existential experience and the inner conflicts we all undergo. Steiner here ...
Rudolf Steiner, Matthew Barton, 2010
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A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal
is essentially the musical ramifications of Wagner's shaping of the Communion
theme such that, as he put it to Cosima, “'Die Schmerzen Amfortas' sind darin
enthalten'” (the pain of Amfortas is contained in it). These ramifications are at
once ...
William Kinderman, Katherine Rae Syer, 2005
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Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of ...
According to Lucy Beckett, for example, Parsifal twice reverts to an
incomprehensible, out-of-place morbidity: the cruel, inexorable pressure exerted
by the Grail knights on Amfortas in the finale of act 3 (they encircle him as if he
were a ...
7
Private Myths: Dreams and Dreaming
As far as the dream is concerned, the most interesting aspect of the legend, apart
from the vessel itself, is the theme of the 'old sick king', Amfortas. Like Chiron in
Greek mythology, Amfortas suffers from a wound which will not heal; and the ...
8
A Pagan Spoiled: Sex and Character in Wagner's Parsifal
The lance could not be recovered unless unleashed by Klingsor as a weapon in
his last-ditch stand to defeat Parsifal, after the latter has rejected Kundry and
experienced Amfortas's suffering. It is little wonder that Wagner was to have so
much ...
Anthony Winterbourne, 2003
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The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and ...
Wagner represents Amfortas's wound in the flesh as a metaphor whose force
Parsifal can also share. When Kundry kisses Parsifal, the hero describes his
initiation into desire (and his awakening to the possibility of sin) as an experience
of ...
Amfortas is beginning to relivehis journeyto Klingsor's magic garden. The
sequence takes the thirdphrase (a variant ofbars28–33)tod,the region furthest
from the holy realm of A and hence a symbol of death. (In thisconnection,
inActIKundry ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AMFORTAS»
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Amfortas is used in the context of the following news items.
New Conductors Announced for Berliner Philharmoniker and the …
@Amfortas tweeted a picture of a man holding a sign reading “Looking for a job” and joked alongside it, “a photo of Christian Thielemann after ... «Blouinartinfo UK, Jul 15»
Flowers, Fillies and Freud
Her leading man, debuting here as the reluctant prophet Jochanaan, will be Ryan McKinny, who's off to Bayreuth next summer to be Amfortas. «Santa Fe Reporter, Jun 15»
The Queen of Spades review – Gardner exerts dramatic grip in ENO …
amfortas · 7 Jun 2015 11:58. 6 7. A truly dreadful production. ENO has had a good year artistically but this was mediocre and embarrassing. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Half-brilliant, half-bewildering: Peter Pan at Welsh National Opera …
Words and music combined to extraordinary intensity, with the simplest phrases among the most powerful — Amfortas' 'Wehe! Wehe!', Kundry's ... «Spectator.co.uk, May 15»
Parsifal review – Nelsons delivers exceptional, mature Wagner
James Rutherford was Amfortas, stoically resilient in his great lament. And while there was nothing remotely vampish about Mihoko Fujimura's ... «The Guardian, May 15»
On The Future of Wagnerism, Part 6: The Wagner Family and …
... the Nibelungs, the Wanderer, the gods, Beckmesser, Amfortas, the Knights of the Grail, Klingsor, Kundry, the Germans -- now doomed to bear ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
Parsifal @ Staatsoper, Schiller Theater, Berlin
Act III takes place in the same bunker as the first act, Gurnemanz and Amfortas are suitably aged, and the ending, when Gurnemanz stabs ... «musicOMH.com, Apr 15»
Parsifal, Schiller Theater, Berlin — review
For an awful moment, as the Knights of the Holy Grail squeeze blood from Amfortas's wound in order to drink it in their subsequent ceremony, ... «Financial Times, Mar 15»
Parsifal, Berlin Staatsoper, Schiller Theater, Berlin, review: 'thrilling'
The Grail itself, a chalice filled with holy water and blood from the wound of Amfortas, provided glorious renewal as the knights drank from it ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
Classical concerts you must see in Birmingham in 2015
... of principals is James Rutherford as the terminally suffering Amfortas and Mihoko Fujimura as the tormented, Mary Magdalene-like Kundry. «Birmingham Post, Jan 15»
