Wagner Staging: The Debate Continues (Transcript of Roundtable Discussion at ‘Wagner in Performance’ Conference)

The following is an edited transcript of the roundtable discussion that closed the afternoon session of the conference ‘Wagner in Performance: Theory and Practice’, which took place at St Peter’s College, Oxford, on 22 November 2008. Grateful thanks are due to the participants in the roundtable (Robert Sollich, Clemens Risi, Katherine Syer and Nila Parly), to the members of the audience who also contributed, and to the chairman, Patrick Carnegy, for his help in providing and editing the transcript.