1 1

The Wagner Journal

The Wagner Journal, March 2017, Volume 11, Number 1

The Wagner Journal, March 2017, Volume 11, Number 1

£15.00 GBP
£15.00 GBP
Sale Sold out
Taxes included.
Format

Features

Derek Hughes, Wagner: Race, Nationalism and Other Distractions

Richard H. Bell, Teleology, Providence and the ‘Death of God’: a New Perspective on the Ring Cycle’s Debt to G.W.F. Hegel 

Barry Millington, All in it Together: the Gesamtkunstwerk Revisited

David Breckbill 1957–2016: Barry Millington pays tribute to a valued friend and colleague

 

Reviews (live performances)

A Voyage into Endless Night: Paula M. Bortnichak and Edward A. Bortnichak are carried away by Treliński’s Tristan at the Met

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The first instalments of a new multi-director Ring prove that the lack of an overriding vision is no bar to success, suggests Matthew Rye

Double Measure: Matthew Rye finds two new productions from the same director reap differing rewards

Mirror Images: Michael Fuller has reservations about a context-free Parsifal

Gold Struck Once Again in Victoria: Barry Millington reports on the revived Ring in Melbourne

 

Reviews (CDs)

Valkyries Ride through Time and Space: Recordings of Walküre over a span of eighty years are evaluated by Niall Hoskin

 

Reviews (DVDs)

Telling a Story: Tom DeRose is enthralled by Dmitri Tcherniakov’s original take on Parsifal

 

Reviews (books)

Singing for Hitler: A new biography of Frida Leider does not skate over the moral issues of the great singer’s wartime career, finds Barry Emslie

The View from the Pit: A new Wagner biography by a viola player and antiquarian is assessed by Nicholas Vazsonyi

View full details