Intro
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Difficult and Dangerous Undertaking
Chapter 1: Longing for Chaos
Chapter 2: A Young Rhinelander
Chapter 3: Pleasing the Crowd and Escaping It
Chapter 4: Operas Grand and Grotesque
Chapter 5: Landscapes of the Heart and the Mind
Chapter 6: Geniuses, Young and not so Young
Chapter 7: Opera as Politics, Politics as Opera
Chapter 8: The Mendelssohn Set
Chapter 9: The Nation Takes the Stand
Chapter 10: New Paths, Different Directions
Chapter 11: The Nation Speaks

Chapter 12: The Road to Rome, and to Munich
Chapter 13: Bayreuth: Its Friends and Its Enemies
Chapter 14: Ars Gallica, Ars Veritatis
Chapter 15: Clouds, Forests and More Clouds
Chapter 16: The Shadow of Bayreuth
Chapter 17: A Russian Autocrat and an English Misfit
Chapter 18: The Song Ends but the Melody Lingers On
Photographs
About the Author
Notes
Index
Illustrations
Copyright.