sábado, 19 de janeiro de 2013

O Cinema de António Reis - II: Jaime (1974)



Uma das grandes obras de António Reis ( e de Margarida Cordeiro, claro): Jaime, de 1974.

O Cinema de António Reis - I



Uma obra notável de 1982, Ana.

Lugares de Wagner

Richard Wagner veio ao mundo em 22 de maio de 1813, em Leipzig, Leste da Alemanha. Era o nono filho do casal Carl Friedrich e Johanna Rosine Wagner. A modesta casa onde nasceu foi destruída, mas ainda existe a Igreja de São Thomás, onde foi batizado e, quando jovem, recebeu aulas de música do pedagogo e "kantor" Theodor Weinlig. Ler mais em:

http://mediacenter.dw.de/portuguese/pictures/item/811251/Richard_Wagner_e_o_s%C3%A9culo_19/

                        Richard Wagner, esboço a óleo, Franz Hanfstaengel, cerca de 1871.

quinta-feira, 17 de janeiro de 2013

segunda-feira, 7 de janeiro de 2013

Elsa Von Brabant, figura impressionante de Lohengrin

Eis um belo artigo sobre a figura de Elsa Von Brabant, da ópera Lohengrin.

Elsa’s Reason


On Beliefs and Motives in Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin

ILIAS CHRISSOCHOIDIS and STEFFEN HUCK

(University College London / ELSE)     «Once Wagner’s most popular opera, Lohengrin has suffered scholarly neglect in the postwar

period. This essay reengages with the work from the novel perspective of game theory

analysis. Centering on Elsa’s breach of the Frageverbot, it offers a rigorous epistemological

study of the opera’s main characters. Against traditional interpretations of the heroine’s fatal

decision, we propose a complex and psychologically more satisfactory account. Elsa asks the

forbidden question because she needs to confirm Lohengrin’s belief in her innocence, a belief

that Ortrud successfully eroded in Act II. This novel interpretation reveals Elsa as a rational

individual, upgrades the dramatic significance of the Act I combat scene, and signals a

hermeneutic return to the heart of opera criticism, the drama itself....»   Continuem a leitura em: http://else.econ.ucl.ac.uk/papers/uploaded/375.pdf

domingo, 6 de janeiro de 2013

Wagner e os Judeus

«When, in 1985, the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth, Germany, opened an exhibition entitled "Wagner and the Jews," its organizer, museum director Manfred Eger, said it was a plea not for Wagner but for the truth. The truth is that some Germans, like many Israelis, still cannot "digest" Wagner, and that the antisemitic composer continues to be an issue - lukewarm in Germany, hot in Israel. »
É o início de um artigo sobre as polémicas eternas da relação de Wagner com os judeus. A ler na Jewish Virtual Library.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Wagner.html

quinta-feira, 3 de janeiro de 2013

Said e Barenboim em conversa sobre Richard Wagner

Uma conversa muito interessante entre Edward Said e Barenboim sobre Richard Wagner.


«The following is an edited conversation about Wagner that took place between my friend, Edward Saïd, and myself, at Columbia University, where Mr. Saïd is Professor of Comparative Literature and English. The conversation appears in full in the Spring 1998 issue of Raritan, a quarterly publication of Rutgers University.»
Vejam o artigo em The Wagnerian.

http://www.the-wagnerian.com/2011/10/barenboim-discusses-why-furtwangler.html

quarta-feira, 2 de janeiro de 2013

ANO WAGNER - 2013

 
É um artigo publicado no Deutsche Welle.
«De Bayreuth até Melbourne: o “Anel” será encenado no mundo inteiro. A obra de Richard Wagner está em voga. Uma primeira visão sobre os pontos altos no ano comemorativo dos 200 anos do compositor.»
Leiam o artigo completo em:

http://www.dw.de/wagner-e-o-anel-no-ano-comemorativo-2013/a-16486660