Carmen contra Wagner: Lo spirito mediterraneo di Nietzsche come antidoto alla malattia wagneriana

Abstract

The text proposes a reading of Nietzsche’s discovery of Bizet’s Carmen through a comparison with his interpretation of Wagner’s dramas. From this emerges a look on some elements of modernity, such as, in particular art and bourgeois opera and common morality, in a critical confrontation with the Dionysian spirit of Greek tragedy.