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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’

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

A Longborough Diary 2024
Richard Laing, our reviews editor, shares his experience of playing first violin in the Longborough orchestra under the celebrated Wagnerian, Anthony Negus
A Longborough Diary 2024
Richard Laing, our reviews editor, shares his experience of playing first violin in the Longborough orchestra under the celebrated Wagnerian, Anthony Negus

Rahway as a New Jersey Bayreuth
Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak revel in a Roaring 20s ‘Walküre’, the start of an ambitious Wagnerian venture in New Jersey
Rahway as a New Jersey Bayreuth
Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak revel in a Roaring 20s ‘Walküre’, the start of an ambitious Wagnerian venture in New Jersey

Wagner and Anti-Semitism
Nobody denies that Wagner was an anti-Semite. But was his anti-Semitism expressed in the works themselves?
Wagner and Anti-Semitism
Nobody denies that Wagner was an anti-Semite. But was his anti-Semitism expressed in the works themselves?

‘Lohengrin’: Seeing Through the Ether
Reflections on Yuval Sharon’s Bayreuth Production by Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak
‘Lohengrin’: Seeing Through the Ether
Reflections on Yuval Sharon’s Bayreuth Production by Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak