Adele Boghetich, Richard Wagner. Il cantore del mito. Vita, pensiero, opere, Zecchini, Varese 2025

Abstract

Adele Boghetich’s volume, Richard Wagner. Il cantore del mito. Vita, pensiero, opere (Zecchini Editore, 2025), stands out as one of the most wide-ranging and solid Italian-language Wagner monographs of the last decades. From the very first pages, the author’s exceptionally high level of expertise is evident, along with her elegant, learned, yet accessible writing style. Boghetich not only reconstructs Wagner’s life and works with philological and historical precision, but does so in prose rich in resonance, depth, and critical sensitivity. She has produced a monumental work that combines the rigor of musicological scholarship with the evocative power of art literature. It is not merely a study of Wagner, but a journey of discovery into the heart of German Romanticism, guided by the steady hand of a scholar who has made Germanic culture her chosen field.