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A study of the deep history of the Wagnerian environmental imagination.
 
Richard Wagner’s operas are bursting with environmental imagery, from tittering birds to flowing rivers to towering trees. In Richard Wagner’s Political Ecology, Kirsten S. Paige asks where Wagner’s environmental imagination came from, how it was received by audience members and reconceived by stage directors, and how it refracts his politics and shapes their legacies. By tracing ecological dimensions of the composer’s essays and dramas, Paige reveals how Wagner’s environmental imagination was inextricable from broader political concerns of his time.

The book begins by examining the way Wagner’s political ecology shape-shifted across its rhetorical, musical, scenographic, and technological permutations. Although Wagner’s essays and dramas invite a range of interpretations, for Paige, they point to an all-encompassing image of music drama-as-climate. The book then turns to the ways Wagnerian drama—and opera more generally—at once participates in the industrial-technological lineage of climate change and helps spectators grapple with the challenges of living in a warming world. In providing the first close examination of Wagner’s artistic thought, practice, and reception in relation to nineteenth-century climate theory and the early history of environmentalism, Richard Wagner’s Political Ecology considers what it might mean to reimagine opera around ethical mandates of sustainability.

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With his characteristic flair for contradiction, Wagner perceived a growing environmental crisis while exacerbating that very crisis through the technological and logistical demands of his festival apparatus. In this formidable, revelatory study, Paige moves from Wagners Romantic-era context to the confounding complexity of his thought and work and on to contemporary stagings that try to address ecological issues in a carbon-neutral frame. An essential addition to the Wagner bookshelf. * Alex Ross, author of "Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music" * Brilliantly conceived and meticulously researched, Richard Wagners Political Ecology transforms our understanding of music, environment, and ideology in the nineteenth century and beyond. Paige deftly illuminates how Wagners entanglement with ecological thought and German nationalism continues to resonate into the present. This is an essential contribution to both musicology and the environmental humanitiesincisive and compelling from start to finish. * Alexander Rehding, Harvard University * Richard Wagners Political Ecology seeks to merge an ecomusicological sensibility with up-to-the-minute attention to the political implications of Wagnerian environments and atmospheres. Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary source materials as well as current writings on the Anthropocene, media studies, and racial politics, Paige creatively fuses discourses in a manner transformative for Wagner studies and opera scholarship in general. Richard Wagners Political Ecology is a rich and rewarding study that will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers in the fields of musicology, history, and environmental humanities. * Holly Watkins, University of Rochester * With Richard Wagners Political Ecology, Paige charts an entirely fresh course for Wagner studies in the age of climate consciousness. Rereading Wagners essay Art and Climate opens up unforeseen horizons, contexts and ethical challenges for music whose power can depend, in part, on thematizing the vulnerability of nature. Along the way, a remarkable breadth of sources and quirky insights, from the smell of Parsifals music to Goebbels hope for the Waldoper, plunges the Wagnerian heritage into a dazzling ecological-political nexus that reaches from Herder to carbon-hungry opera production in the twenty-first century. * David Trippett, University of Cambridge *

Introduction: Airing Out Wagnerian Drama
Chapter One. On the Atmospheric Politics of Wagnerian Theater
Chapter Two. Turning Bayreuth Inside Out
Chapter Three. Singing with the Forest: Wagner, the Waldoper, and the Third
Reich
Chapter Four. On the Wagnerian Long Now
Chapter Five. Hot Opera
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Kirsten S. Paige is an associate teaching professor of musicology at North Carolina State University. From 2025 to 2026, Paige was a fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard Universitys research center, supported by a major grant from the American Council of Learned Societies.