Opera as Comics: Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung in Craig P. Russell's Graphic Adaptation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/olh.4680" target="_blank" >10.16995/olh.4680</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Opera as Comics: Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung in Craig P. Russell's Graphic Adaptation

Original language description

The article explores the capacity of the comics medium to represent a complex opera cycle in a graphic narrative. It analyses specific features of transmedial transmission between opera and comics through the example of the most recent graphic adaptation of Richard Wagner's dramatic tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung by P. Craig Russell, published by Dark Horse Comics (2000-2001). The adaptation, which fuses the disparate worlds of opera, comics, and fantasy culture, is stripped of Wagner's controversial ideology. Russell interprets the Ring Cycle as an essential source of inspiration for American comics, thereby making this complex magnum opus attractive and accessible to wider audiences. His chief aim, however, is to reproduce an operatic effect by way of graphic mythic grandiosity. The study explores the visual aspects of the adaptation, addressing the potential of the comics medium to capture Wagner's original vision. With a focus on illustration style and character depiction, this article discusses Russell's imagery, which combines the classic illustrations of Arthur Rackham and Carl Emil Doepler, images from American popular culture, and Alan Lee's illustrations of Tolkien's series The Lord of the Rings. This article further analyses the methods of transmission of sounds into the silent medium, including both linguistic and visual means of expressing the intensity and quality of sound. Special attention is paid to the meaning and visual form of the Wagnerian leitmotiv as well as the use of colouring in relation to timing.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

OPEN LIBRARY OF HUMANITIES

ISSN

2056-6700

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

1-24

UT code for WoS article

000697683300005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85117272002