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The Wagner Journal

The Wagner Journal, July 2023, Volume 17, Number 2

The Wagner Journal, July 2023, Volume 17, Number 2

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Guest-edited by Katherine Syer

 

Features

Adrian Müller, Kurt Overhoff and Wieland Wagner’s Bayreuth

Kirsten Paige, On the Politics of Wagnerian Care

Ryan M. Prendergast, Deadly Serious: Humour and Humourlessness in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg 

Katherine Syer, ‘It was obviously meant to be’: An Interview with Pietari Inkinen

Matthew Rye 1962–2023: Barry Millington pays tribute to an incomparable colleague

 

Reviews (live performances)

War and Peace in Brabant, via Moscow and New York: Girard’s Lohengrin at the Met has become a commentary on our times, finds Katherine Syer

Variations on Wagner: Romeo Castellucci’s revived production of Tannhäuser is not the only imaginative response to Wagner’s work enjoyed by Richard Laing at the Salzburg Easter Festival

Bloody Instructions: Michael Fuller looks for more than gore in Michael Thalheimer’s Geneva Parsifal

Rainbow Bridge Over Troubled Water: With its future under threat, English National Opera serves up a Rhinegold to treasure, writes Roland Matthews

All the World’s a Stage: In the revival of Tim Albery’s Tannhäuser, Michael Fuller sees theatre observing itself

 

Reviews (CDs)

A Glimpse Behind the Curtain: Richard Laing has mixed feelings about the release of some imperfect but intermittently impressive recordings

 

Reviews (books)

‘Wotan married Minna’? Eva Rieger shows that Minna’s relationship with Richard Wagner was more complicated than the composer would have us believe, writes Anna Stoll Knecht

A Contradictory Life: Simon Williams enjoys a new biography of Cosima Wagner which illuminates the many sides of her personality

The Magician of Venice: A study of the polymath Mariano Fortuny shines a light on the development of Wagnerian theatre, finds Patrick Carnegy

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