Post by darkehmen on Feb 8, 2008 21:25:03 GMT 1
One of my favourite music-related sites on the Web is "Richard Wagner Postkarten," which, as the name implies, features a large collection of 19th-century postcards depicting scenes from Wagner's operas.
www.richard-wagner-postkarten.de/
It's so refreshing to see these noble, Romantic visualizations of these works, in contrast to modern stagings.
Here are a few that I find especially interesting. I hope you enjoy them.
A suitably eerie Holländer from Der fliegende Holländer:
Tannäuser:
A gorgeous Elsa von Brabant from Lohengrin:
The fachwerk of Nürnberg from Die Meistersinger:
Angelic Rhinemaidens from Das Rheingold, and a troll-like Alberich:
A dramatic visualization of the fire encircling Brünnhilde, in Die Walküre:
A sequence from my favourite Ring opera, Siegfried:
The end of the gods, from Götterdämmerung:
The forest scene in Parsifal. Note the influence of Caspar David Friedrich:
It's incomprehensible how any directors could consider minimalist, modern stagings (let alone revisionist political conceptions) more dramatically interesting than the sublime and beautiful ideas shown above. To realize such visions on stage would, one would think, yield the greatest artistic fulfillment.
www.richard-wagner-postkarten.de/
It's so refreshing to see these noble, Romantic visualizations of these works, in contrast to modern stagings.
Here are a few that I find especially interesting. I hope you enjoy them.
A suitably eerie Holländer from Der fliegende Holländer:
Tannäuser:
A gorgeous Elsa von Brabant from Lohengrin:
The fachwerk of Nürnberg from Die Meistersinger:
Angelic Rhinemaidens from Das Rheingold, and a troll-like Alberich:
A dramatic visualization of the fire encircling Brünnhilde, in Die Walküre:
A sequence from my favourite Ring opera, Siegfried:
The end of the gods, from Götterdämmerung:
The forest scene in Parsifal. Note the influence of Caspar David Friedrich:
It's incomprehensible how any directors could consider minimalist, modern stagings (let alone revisionist political conceptions) more dramatically interesting than the sublime and beautiful ideas shown above. To realize such visions on stage would, one would think, yield the greatest artistic fulfillment.
