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The Wagner Journal

The Wagner Journal, March 2026, Volume 20, Number 1

The Wagner Journal, March 2026, Volume 20, Number 1

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Features

Samuel L. Leiter, Brooklyn and the Parsifal Craze of 1904: Or, How a 50-Cent Stock Company turned Wagner’s Music Drama into a Drama with Music

Victoria Parrott, ‘Das freie kühne Weib’: Der Ring des Nibelungen and the German Women’s Movement

Eva Rieger, Is Brünnhilde Raped? Searching for Clues in Music, Text and Productions FREE

Reviews (live performances)

Back to Basics in Berlin: Hugo Shirley sees the advantages of a stripped-down production

All’s Not So Fair in Love and War: There’s violence aplenty in Paris, as Roland Matthews discovers

Blood Sacrifice: Michael Fuller finds intriguing resonances in Geneva’s new Tannhäuser

Faith and Fable: Simon Williams enjoys a thought-provoking production of Wagner’s final opera

Fairy Tales of Science: Hermann Grampp marvels at a superlative Ring in Berlin

Wagner on the Fringe: Richard Laing is simultaneously inspired and frustrated by a trio of non-traditional performances

 

Reviews (CDs)

Uhde You Think You Are? Richard Laing binges on a big box of Bayreuth’s best

Storms in the South China Sea: Christopher Morley finds much to admire in a new recording of Wagner’s early masterpiece

Metropolitan Elite: Edward Christian-Hare is impressed by a historic recording

From the Rising of the Son: Some restored recordings allow Richard Moukarzel to eavesdrop on early Wagnerian performance style

 

Reviews (DVDs)

Ring Revolving: Richard Laing is eventually won over by a clever Swiss tetralogy

Murder Mystery: Richard Laing is thrilled by a brilliant Brabantian ‘whodunnit’

 

Reviews (books)

The Eyes Have It: Niall Hoskin welcomes a study of a great Wagnerian conductor

 

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