Part of the Wagnerism Audiovisual Companion. Most audio samples are by kind permission of Pristine Classical.
Arthur Hacker, "The Temptation of Sir Percival," 1894.
p. 279: Wotan defends the love of the siblings Siegmund and Sieglinde and condemns "age-old custom."
Hans Hotter in Krauss's 1953 Ring at Bayreuth (Pristine).
p. 285: Fernand Khnopff's Listening to Schumann.
p. 286: Isolde's first line, "Who dares to mock me?"
Kirsten Flagstad live at the Met, 1941 (Pristine).
p. 290: Primitive live recordings of Lillian Nordica singing Brünnhilde at the Met, giving the merest hint of the power of her voice.
p. 296: Gurnemanz describes the self-castration of Klingsor, the evil sorcerer in Parsifal.
Ludwig Weber in Krauss's 1953 Parsifal at Bayreuth (Pristine).
p. 297: The beginning of Oskar Panizza's article "Bayreuth and Homosexuality."
p. 298: Siegfried Wagner and his brother-in-law Henry Thode on the Lido of Venice.
p. 305: The Liebestod scene from Penny Dreadful.
Simeon Solomon's Design for a Motif from Parsifal:
p. 307: Natalie Barney.
p. 309: Vernon Lee.
p. 311: Thomas Mann in 1910.
p. 319: Siegfried makes the disconcerting discovery that Brünnhilde is a woman, not a man.
Wolfgang Windgassen in Krauss's 1953 Ring at Bayreuth (Pristine).