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    Steam and Hot Air: Tash Siddiqui is entertained but frustrated by an over-theorised exploration of Wagnerian stage technologies

    Steam and Hot Air: Tash Siddiqui is entertained but frustrated by an over-theorised exploration of Wagnerian stage technologies

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    Review of Gundula Kreuzer, Curtain, Gong, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera (University of California Press, 2018).

    March 2020, Volume 14, Number 1, 82–8.

    Potential readers of Curtain, Gong, Steam should be warned at the outset that it suffers from similar traits of needless complexity and an over-reliance on ‘the machine’, the machine in this case being an academic system more intent on its own inner workings than on communicating with the outside world.

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