Part of the Wagnerism Audiovisual Companion. Most audio samples are by kind permission of Pristine Classical.
p. 67: The prelude to Tristan und Isolde:
From Furtwängler's recording of Tristan (Pristine).
And the duet "So starben wir":
From Furtwängler's recording of Tristan (Pristine).
p. 68: Waltraud Meier sings Isolde's Transfiguration, commonly called the Liebestod.
p. 76: Poster for Tannhäuser in Paris, 1861.
p. 77: The Venusberg Bacchanale from Tannhäuser as realized at Bayreuth in 1978, with choreography by John Neumeier.
p. 80: The Lohengrin Act I Prelude.
Baudelaire's Wagner essay as it originally appeared in the Revue européenne of April 1, 1861.
p. 94: Fantin-Latour's painting of the Venusberg.
Fantin-Latour's image of Wotan at the end of Walküre:
Cézanne's Young Girl at the Piano:
p. 95: Cézanne's Baigneuses:
p. 99: At the archival site Gallica you can see all issues of the Revue wagnérienne, including the sonnet sequence "Hommage à Wagner."
p. 103: The music of Mallarmé — "L'Après-midi d'un faune" read by Pierre Jean Jouve and then cast into music by Debussy.
