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The Wagner Journal

The Wagner Journal, July 2022, Volume 16, Number 2

The Wagner Journal, July 2022, Volume 16, Number 2

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Guest-edited by Chris Walton 

 

Features

Alex Ross, Götterdämmerung 1945: Wagnerian Fantasies in English-Language Reports of Hitler’s Death

Kate Hopkins, A Wagnerian Novel: Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark

Paula Fourie, Predicting Apartheid’s Götterdämmerung? Wagnerian Spectres in the Work of Etienne Leroux

Tash Siddiqui, Richard Wagner and the Mystery of Old Compton Street

Chris Walton, Adapting Wagner for the Young: An Interview with Merle Fahrholz and Alvaro Schoeck

 

Reviews (live performances) 

Venus Envy: Matthew Rye feels the musical rewards make up for a so-so production in a very contemporary take on Tannhäuser

Crocs Away! David Ames is impressed with Melbourne Opera’s crocodile-hunting Die Walküre and its all-Australian cast

Too Much Gold, Too Few Norns and Too Many Maidens: Chris Walton samples the first instalment of Bern’s first-ever Ring

 

Reviews (CDs) 

Resurrection in Venice: David Matthews enjoys a recording of a new realisation of Wagner’s last symphonic sketches

Forging Ahead: Simon Trezise greets the release of a brisk 1987 Siegfried from Stockholm

 

Reviews (books) 

Northern Exposure: Arnold Whittall broadly welcomes a symposium exploring Wagner’s Nordic connections

Walter Presents ... For Niall Hoskin, an ambitious attempt at making the text of Wagner’s Ring cycle more accessible is marred by too many misreadings

Events, Dear Boy, Events: Jeremy Coleman dives down a Dahlhausian rabbit hole in search of Badiou

Time Well Spent: Jeffrey Swann assesses a study of the influence of Wagner on two of his great literary successors

Death-Devoted Art: Edward A. and Paula M. Bortnichak review a multidisciplinary examination of the role of death in opera

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