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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

 

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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