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The Wagner Journal

The Wagner Journal, November 2021, Volume 15, Number 3

The Wagner Journal, November 2021, Volume 15, Number 3

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Guest-edited by Peter Franklin


Features

Philip White, ‘It was all totally by chance ...’: a Decade Working as an Assistant Chorus Master at the Bayreuth Festival

Ben Winters, Magic Fire: a Wagner Film with a Difference

Charlotte Purkis, Passion or Fashion? British Female Wagnerites ‘Out and About’ Around 1900

Israfel Mondego [alias Gertrude Hudson], Buggins at Bayreuth

Roger Allen, ‘On the Destiny of Opera’: The Musically Conceived Drama or ‘Deeds of Music made Visible’

 

Reviews (live and streamed performances)

The Birth of Tragedy From the Spirit of Music: Hermann Grampp is overjoyed to find Stefan Herheim’s Ring cycle at the Berlin Deutsche Oper back on track after its Covid-related interruptions

Street Scenes: Matthew Rye reports on Bayreuth’s new landlocked Holländer from the comfort of home

Long Day’s Journey Into Night: Diane V. Silverthorne reviews a highly contemporary reading of Tristan und Isolde at the Aix-en-Provence Festival

Death Wishes: Barry Millington sees two productions of Tristan und Isolde that reflected the effects of the pandemic in both dramatic and practical ways

No Nothung: Barry Millington assesses Longborough’s pared-down Walküre

Slipway to Heaven: Michael Fuller’s survey of the spring’s streamed performances sees the gradual return of audiences and takes him from shipyard to prison

 

Reviews (CDs)

Don’t Shoot the Messengers: An intriguing project reminds Richard Laing of what he’s missing

 

Reviews (DVDs)

Game of Cones: Matthew Rye tries to keep a straight face through the first two instalments of a decade-old Bulgarian staging of the Ring

  

Reviews (books)

Shepherd Calls the Tune: Arnold Whittall investigates a provocative reading of Tristan und Isolde that centres on the Act III ‘alte Weise’

Round the Houses: Chris Walton enjoys a lavishly illustrated tour around some of the most significant places in Wagner’s itinerant life

Raff Riff: Chris Walton welcomes a reassessment of Wagner disciple Joachim Raff and his friendship with Hans von Bülow

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