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Review of Simon Callow, Being Wagner: The Triumph of the Will (William Collins, 2017).

July 2017, Volume 11, Number 2, 91–3.

Here is an insight into the mind of a voluble, diminutive man of strongly-held opinions, never short of self-confidence; a man of the theatre, a man of words, a man demanding to be listened to. Being Wagner opens a window onto what it is to be Simon Callow.