Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on source material
- Wagner Family Tree
- Introduction
- 1 A ‘giant Easter egg’. Mausi's home and family
- 2 The noisy child 1924 to 1931
- 3 ‘She should learn to cope with drudgery’. At boarding school 1931 to 1935
- 4 ‘Impudent, endearing and witty’. Friedelind and her aunts 1936 to 1937
- 5 ‘Is it German, what Hitler has done for you?’ 1938 to 1939
- 6 ‘It's precisely because I'm German that I'm not living in Germany’. The farewell 1940
- 7 In England, behind barbed wire 1940 to 1941
- 8 ‘My heart is overflowing’. From Buenos Aires to New York 1941 to 1943
- 9 ‘Only you could still save our inheritance!’ 1943 to 1945
- 10 After the War is over 1946 to 1950
- 11 Friedelind returns 1950 to 1955
- 12 The master classes begin 1956 to 1960
- 13 Heyday of the master classes and their end 1960 to 1966
- 14 Sibling conflict 1967 to 1970
- 15 Schemes and setbacks The 1970s
- 16 ‘A foster mother, a guiding light’ The 1980s
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
13 - Heyday of the master classes and their end 1960 to 1966
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on source material
- Wagner Family Tree
- Introduction
- 1 A ‘giant Easter egg’. Mausi's home and family
- 2 The noisy child 1924 to 1931
- 3 ‘She should learn to cope with drudgery’. At boarding school 1931 to 1935
- 4 ‘Impudent, endearing and witty’. Friedelind and her aunts 1936 to 1937
- 5 ‘Is it German, what Hitler has done for you?’ 1938 to 1939
- 6 ‘It's precisely because I'm German that I'm not living in Germany’. The farewell 1940
- 7 In England, behind barbed wire 1940 to 1941
- 8 ‘My heart is overflowing’. From Buenos Aires to New York 1941 to 1943
- 9 ‘Only you could still save our inheritance!’ 1943 to 1945
- 10 After the War is over 1946 to 1950
- 11 Friedelind returns 1950 to 1955
- 12 The master classes begin 1956 to 1960
- 13 Heyday of the master classes and their end 1960 to 1966
- 14 Sibling conflict 1967 to 1970
- 15 Schemes and setbacks The 1970s
- 16 ‘A foster mother, a guiding light’ The 1980s
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Financing the master classes remained a matter of urgency. Nevertheless, Friedelind doubled the number of participants in 1960, inviting 23 young Americans to Bayreuth: set designers, future conductors, singers, répétiteurs, and six architects – among them Walfredo Toscanini, the grandson of the conductor. Convinced that her classes should include a study of how opera houses are built, she also increased the number of courses on offer. They would take a two-week trip to view famous theatres, see operas and discuss the results of an architectural competition. In June the group went first to Malmö in Sweden in order to visit the city theatre, then to Stockholm to the Congress Centre and the royal theatre at Drottningholm, and then they moved on to Copenhagen to see the Tivoli Concert Hall and the Radio House. In Berlin they visited Hans Scharoun (1893–1972), who was busy building the Philharmonie (it would be finished in 1963). There followed trips to the opera houses of Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne, Hamburg and Münster. They went to the new theatre in Lünen, which was equipped for special lighting effects, and to the local Geschwister Scholl High School that Scharoun had designed. There followed the Beethoven Hall in Bonn, the Mannheim National Theatre, the Schwetzingen Court Theatre, the Frankfurt Opera House, the Liederhalle and Kleines Schauspielhaus in Stuttgart and finally the Festspielhaus in Salzburg.
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- Friedelind WagnerRichard Wagner's Rebellious Granddaughter, pp. 241 - 257Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013