Part of the Wagnerism Audiovisual Companion. Most audio samples are by kind permission of Pristine Classical.
From Patrice Chéreau’s Ring at Bayreuth.
p. 614: Wieland Wagner rehearses the Ring in 1965. His energetic movement on stage may give a slight sense of what his grandfather was like as a stage director.
p. 614: The opening of Joachim Herz’s film of The Flying Dutchman.
p. 615: Two images from Herz’s Ring.
“Das Ende!” in the Chéreau Ring.
An image from Götz Friedrich’s Berlin Ring.
p. 626: Joseph Beuys’s Vitex agnus castus.
p. 629: At the online gallery of the Tate Modern you can see Anselm Kiefer’s Parsifal I, Parsifal II, and Parsifal III. Below is Parsifal IV at the Zurich Kunsthaus.
p. 633: Dalì’s .
Designs for Tristan Fou.
p. 635: At the David Hockney Foundation you can see a video of Hockney’s Wagner Drive. Below, an image from Hockney’s production of Tristan at the LA Opera. I wrote more about the Wagner drives in a New Yorker column and on this blog.
p. 641: The Arthur Rackham illustration of Siegfried that caught the attention of the young C. S. Lewis.
p. 645: Valkyrie and Airboy.
From Gil Kane’s Ring comic.
From C. Craig Russell’s Ring comic.
p. 646: John Williams’s Force theme in Star Wars.
p. 649: The opening scene of Malick’s The New World.
p. 652: Herzog’s La Soufrière (Wagner at around 28 minutes in).
p. 653: A scene from Herzog’s Lessons of Darkness.
p. 654: To the Wonder.
