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The Wagner Journal

The Wagner Journal, July 2016, Volume 10, Number 2

The Wagner Journal, July 2016, Volume 10, Number 2

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Guest-edited by Matthew Rye

 

Features

Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak, The ‘Missing Link’ in the Evolution of Wagner’s Siegfried 

Richard H. Bell, Wagner’s Siegfried Act III Scene 1: A Study in ‘Renunciation of the Will’ and the ‘Sublime’ 

Dagny Beidler, Steadfast and Upstanding: Franz Wilhelm Beidler, Richard Wagner’s Eldest Grandson

 

Reviews (live performances)

The Agony and the Ecstasy: Matthew Rye enjoys a perceptive interpretation of Tristan und Isolde

Virgin Territory: Matthew Rye is seduced by a provocative staging of Tannhäuser

Naval Gazing: Simon Morgan concludes that a director’s over-reliance on visual stimulation can leave his audience all at sea

Rienzi, der Führer: Michael Fuller misses the sense of the epic in the Deutsche Oper’s now classic staging of Wagner’s early opera

Honey, I Shrunk the Ring Cycle: Tash Siddiqui senses an uneasy alliance between cabaret and high drama in a potted version of Wagner’s tetralogy

 

Reviews (CDs)

Knight Watchmen: David Breckbill compares the only known recordings of Lohengrin by two leading mid-20th-century Wagnerians

Ring Returning: Arnold Whittall reviews two parts of a classic recording that still offers plenty to enjoy

Maiden Voyage: Matthew Rye hears the siren call of German Romanticism in a Wagner-inspired choral journey

 

Reviews (DVDs)

Visions from the Green Hill: Matthew Rye gives a personal assessment of a much-discussed decade of Bayreuth Festival productions

 

Reviews (books)

Sachs Appeal: Mark Berry sees a worrying reactionary trend reflected in a call to arms against Regietheater by a leading former Wagnerian baritone

Wagnerian Facebook: Barry Millington welcomes an exemplary catalogue of photographs of the composer

From the Coalface: Mike Ashman finds plenty of Wagnerian enlightenment in a general operatic volume drawing on the latest scholarship

A View from the Pit: Roger Allen appraises the reflections of one of today’s leading Wagnerian interpreters

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