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The Wagner Journal

The Wagner Journal, July 2019, Volume 13, Number 2

The Wagner Journal, July 2019, Volume 13, Number 2

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Guest-edited by Roger Allen

 

Features

John Warner, ‘Es klang so alt, und war doch so neu.’ Wagner’s Greatest Myth: Musical Historicism in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Jeremy Coleman, ‘In ein fernes Land’: The Politics of Translation in Wagner’s Arrangement of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide

Roger Allen, ‘Das, was eigentlich Musik’: Richard Wagner’s Reception of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 28, Op. 101


Reviews (live performances)

Semper Not Fidelis: Michael Fuller visits Dresden to find a playful Konwitschny Tannhäuser outclassed by a sombre Holländer

Flagging Unity: Mark Berry is unimpressed by recent revivals of Meistersinger and Rienzi in Berlin

Love Actually: Christof Loy’s new production of Tannhäuser and Philipp Stölzl’s revival of Parsifal prompt Michael Fuller to reflect on religion in our time

 

Reviews (books)

Not Richard and Famous: Chris Walton is entertained by a biography of a composer who played bit parts in the lives of Wagner and Strauss

Looking for Trouble: Barry Millington is perplexed by a new study of Wagner

Realism and its Discontents: Simon Williams surveys a multi-authored study of Wagner and Verdi production

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