Preface Introduction A musical-analytical postscript 1. Guntram and the crisis of German musical metaphysics 2. Elan vital: Feuersnot, Salome, and radical individualism 3. The way to the social: Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier 4. Intermezzo: Ariadne and her transformations 5. The marriage operas: Die Frau ohne Schatten, Intermezzo, and Die agyptische Helena 6. Composing without Hofmannsthal: Arabella and Die schweigsame Frau 7. The politics of peace: Friedenstag and Daphne 8. Opera in time of war: Die Liebe der Danae and Capriccio.
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