Archetypes of Emotion

Werner Herzog and Opera

Prager, Brad (editor) / Koepnick, Lutz (author)

A Companion to Werner Herzog ; 149-167

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

2012-04-05

19 pages

9781118274491 , 9781405194402

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118274491.ch6

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Werner Herzog and opera, archetypes of emotion , Herzog's Parsifal, Wagner's final musical drama , Herzog's depiction of his protagonists, activities inwardly centered , Herzog and “total work of art” into German auteur cinema , Herzog's world of opera, indebted to the metaphysics of failure , opera and the ethics of acknowledgment , art and truth, Herzog's Death for Five Voices , Herzog's opera, a demand for sensual, aesthetic experience , Herzog's world of opera, total art exhibited through confinement , the world into an aesthetic spectacle, monumental gestures