About The Wagner Journal
Established in 2007, The Wagner Journal is the world’s leading periodical devoted exclusively to Wagner studies. Combining top-quality writing and high production values, the journal is required reading for anyone concerned with the Wagner phenomenon historically or in performance today. It is edited by Barry Millington.
Issues of The Wagner Journal
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The Wagner Journal, November 2026, Volume 20, Number 3
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The Wagner Journal, July 2026, Volume 20, Number 2
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The Wagner Journal, March 2026, Volume 20, Number 1
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These articles from current and previous issues of the journal are free to download.
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Tom Grey, The Grail Realm as Sacred Space in ‘Parsifal’
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Chris Walton, Beethoven’s Ninth under Wagner in 1872: The Annotated Score of Adolf Wallnöfer
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Adolf Wallnöfer’s Annotated Score of Beethoven’s Ninth
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Eva Rieger, Is Brünnhilde Raped? Searching for Clues in Music, Text and Productions
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Sir Donald McIntyre Obituary
This obituary of Sir Donald McIntyre by the editor of The Wagner Journal, Barry Millington, appeared in the ’Guardian’ on 29 November 2025
Sir Donald McIntyre Obituary
This obituary of Sir Donald McIntyre by the editor of The Wagner Journal, Barry Millington, appeared in the ’Guardian’ on 29 November 2025
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Deconstruction and the Modern Bayreuth Festival
Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak on a post-dramatic approach to Wagner’s great tetralogy with a dramaturgical analysis of the Castorf Bayreuth ’Ring’
Deconstruction and the Modern Bayreuth Festival
Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak on a post-dramatic approach to Wagner’s great tetralogy with a dramaturgical analysis of the Castorf Bayreuth ’Ring’
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Faithful, All Too Faithful
A substantial biography by David Cormack on William Ashton Ellis and the Englishing of Richard Wagner
Faithful, All Too Faithful
A substantial biography by David Cormack on William Ashton Ellis and the Englishing of Richard Wagner
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David Kanaga, Wagner’s ‘Melusina’ Sketch of 1866: Text and Context
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Tom Grey, The Grail Realm as Sacred Space in ‘Parsifal’
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Kirsten Paige, Fossils, Fingerprints and the ‘Provisional’ Festspielhaus: Towards a Material History of the Bayreuth Festival
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Rage Against the Machine: Richard Laing finds plenty that’s artificial, but not a lot of intelligence, in Bayreuth’s AI ‘Ring’
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