Part of the Wagnerism Audiovisual Companion. Most audio samples are by kind permission of Pristine Classical.
Joyce in 1915, presumably not playing Wagner.
A song by James Joyce, with an arrangement by Edmund Pendleton, sung by Joyce’s son George:
p. 471: John McCormack, whose vocal style Joyce emulated, sings the Preislied from Meistersinger, in English:
p. 472: From a review of the Carl Rosa company’s Flying Dutchman in the Freeman’s Journal of Sept. 14, 1895. Joyce might have attended this performance; Ulysses makes mention of the excitement generated by the Carl Rosa and by William Ludwig, who sang the Dutchman.
p. 473: A backstage view of the spectacular Siegfried dragon that Joyce saw at the Opéra in Paris in 1902:
p. 481: From Joyce’s draft for Proteus, with the addition of a “pale vampire” in lines reminiscent of The Flying Dutchman:
p. 482: Birgit Nilsson sings Senta’s Ballad:
p. 485: “Nothung! Nothung!” Wolfgang Windgassen sings the forging song from Siegfried at Bayreuth in 1955.
p. 487: The bloodcurdling final chorus of Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots:
p. 488: The young T. S. Eliot:
p. 493: Eliot reads The Waste Land.
p. 494: The young sailor’s song from Act I of Tristan, quoted in The Waste Land:
“Öd’ und leer das Meer,” from Act III:
p. 495: Tristan at the height of his agony in Act III:
All recordings from Furtwängler’s Tristan (Pristine).
p. 501: T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf:
p. 505: Kristin Hutchinson and Liz Kettle read from The Waves:
p. 511: Joyce reads from Finnegans Wake:
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