In all great philosophical love stories, like Nietzsche contra Wagner, the student overcomes the master. Does Montinari betray and outshine Colli? Felsch suggests that Montinari’s communism is a ...

However, the society of Nietzsche’s era failed to create such an art form, and his hopes for Richard Wagner’s operas as a cultural unifier ultimately proved ill-founded. For Nietzsche, Greek tragedy ...