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Heinrich Marschner. Hans Heiling. DVD. Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari / Renato Palumbo. With Markus Werba, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Herbert Lippert, Gabriele Fontana. Directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi. Genova, Italy: Dynamic, 2005. 33467. $43.98.
Richard Wagner. Tristan und Isolde. DVD. Chorus and Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu / Bertrand de Billy. With John Treleaven, Deborah Polaski, Erik Halfvarson, Falk Struckmann, Lioba Braun, Wolfgang Rauch. Directed by Alfred Kirchner. Waldron, Heathfield, East Sussex, U.K.: Opus Arte, 2005. OA 0935 D. $49.99.
Heinrich Marschner's operatic oeuvre presents us with a constant reminder of the great German operatic tradition that preceded him and the glorious one that followed him. It is commonplace to regard Marschner (1795-1861) as the most important composer of German romantic opera between Weber and Wagner--a not-so-enviable position, especially considering the debates on romantic opera that flared up in the nineteenth century. E. T. A. Hoffmann regarded romantic opera as the "only true one, for only in the realm of romanticism is music at home." Hoffmann's aesthetics of opera were allegorically presented in his 1813 essay Der Dichter und der Komponist ("The Poet and the Composer"), later included in his Serapionsbruder. (For a translation and commentary see E. T. A. Hoffmann's Musical Writings: Kreisleriana, The Poet and the Composer, Music Criticism, ed. David Charlton, trans. Martyn Clarke. [New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989], 169ff.) In that essay, Hoffmann advocated for a truly romantic opera that could "bring before our eyes the wonderful apparitions of the spirit-realm, the supernatural and the real bound up one with the other." Music would prove to be the perfect medium for realizing the connection between the two worlds--music itself is part of the "marvelous," since it is very hard to grasp. The latter idea, in Schopenhauer's formulation of the insatiable Will, would have immense...
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