The Wagner Journal, July 2026, Volume 20, Number 2

Features

Roger Allen, ‘Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit‘: Richard Wagner and Johann Sebastian Bach

Adeline Heck, Decadent Lustmord: Fin-de-Siècle Parodies of Tristan und Isolde by Gabriele d’Annunzio and Joséphin Péladan

Anja-Rosa Thöming, ‘Clairvoyance Psychologique’: Thomas Mann’s 1933 Wagner Lecture and its Consequences

Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak, Bayreuth at the Crossroads: Remembering, Forgetting and the Search for Meaning

Chris Walton, Beethoven’s Ninth under Wagner in 1872: The Annotated Score of Adolf Wallnöfer

Reviews (live performances)

Tochter aus Elysium: Richard Laing is captivated by the third instalment of Barrie Kosky’s beguiling Ring

Birth and Transfiguration: Katherine Syer admires a spectacular Isolde in New York

Pomp and Circumstance: Richard Laing marvels at a concert performance both ravishing and relevant

Not Far from the Madding Crowd: With all the world’s troubles on his to-do list, Parsifal has his work cut out, suggests Hugo Shirley

Scottish Play: Michael Fuller rejoices at the return of Wagner to Scottish Opera

Mythic Mash-Up: Roland Matthews finds La Scala’s Götterdämmerung to be a mixed affair

Prima le Parole: Michael Fuller discovers much to ponder in Stuttgart’s new Meistersinger

A Woman of Substance: David Evans enjoys a theatrical depiction of Wagner’s second wife, despite the historical liberties it takes

Reviews (books)

Swann’s Way: Richard Laing is impressed though very nearly defeated by a mammoth study of leitmotifs in the Ring