W

Wackenroder, Heinrich, 196

Wagner, Cosima, 204 , 205 , 206 , 207 , 209 , 267

Wagner, Richard, xiv,4 -6, 5 n, 8 , 10 , 25 , 30 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 39 , 40 , 42 , 42 n, 44 , 46 , 47 , 47 , 49 , 51 , 52 , 55 n, 60 , 62 n, 63 , 68 , 72 , 90 , 112 , 131 , 141 , 151 , 162 -63, 165 , 177 , 193 , 194 , 195 , 197 , 198 , 199 , 203 , 215 , 223 , 228 , 242 , 255 n, 258 , 265 , 267 ;

The Flying Dutchman,21 ;

Götterdämmerung,22 ;

Lohengrin, 22 ;

Die Meistersinger,22 ;

Parsifal, 21 ;

Das Rheingold,22 ;

Der Ring des Nibelungen,5 , 19 , 204 -14;

Siegfried, 4 , 22 ;

Tannhäuser,22 , 134 , 269 ;

Tristan und Isolde,23 ;

Die Walküre,21 .

See also under individual operas

Wagner, Siegfried, 204

Wagner, Wieland, 52 , 55 n, 64 , 208 , 209 , 210 , 211 , 267 , 269

Wagner, Wolfgang, 52 , 56 n, 208 , 209 , 210 , 211 , 267 , 269

"Wagnerites," Wagnerism, 35 , 50 , 68 , 199 , 204 , 208 , 210

Die Walküre (Wagner), 21 , 30 , 205

Walton, William, 130

War and Peace (Tolstoy), 3 -4

Warsaw, opera in, 213

Washington, D.C.:

American National Theatre, 132 -33;

Kennedy Center, 132 ;

opera in, 18 , 134

"The Wasteland" (Eliot), 61

Weaver, William, 172

Weber, Carl Maria von, 17 , 49 , 228 , 244 ;

Euryanthe, 25 ;

Der Freischütz,22 ;

Oberon, 24

Wedekind, Frank, 131

Weikl, Berndt, 123

Weill, Kurt, 134 , 253

Weimer, Eric, 99

Weinstock, Herbert, 161 , 162

Welles, Orson, 219

Welsh National Opera. See Cardiff

Werther (Massenet), 22

West, Rebecca, 201 , 202

West Side Story (Bernstein), 23

Westergaard, Peter, 262

Westheimer, Ruth, 141

Wexford (Ireland) Festival, 27 , 240

What Is Art? (Tolstoy), 3 , 4 -6

Wheatcroft, Geoffrey, 7 , 33

When We Dead Awaken (Ibsen), 131

Where the Wild Things Are (Knussen), 274

Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak), 274

William Tell [Guillaume Tell ] (Rossini), 102 , 198

William Tell (Schiller), 198

Williams, JoBeth, 133

Wilson, Robert, 136

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 197

Windsor Castle (England), 274

Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno, 25

Wolfit, Donald, 261

Wooster Group (New York), 133

World War I, 207

World War II, 27 , 28 , 69 , 207

Wozzeck (Berg), 22 , 36 , 44 , 270