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November 2015 issue of The Wagner Journal is out

The November 2015 issue (vol.9, no.3) of The Wagner Journal is out, which contains the following articles: 'Wagner's Spatial Style' by Christopher Wintle ' "This Round of Songs": Cyclic Coherence in the Wesendonck Lieder' by Malcolm Miller 'From Wagner to Boulez: a Modernist Trajectory' by Arnold Whittall A report on the reopened Wahnfried and new archives in Bayreuth by Barry Millington Plus reviews of: the Ring and new Tristan at Bayreuth, the Ring in Vienna, Parsifal in Karlsruhe,  Birmingham and Wuppertal, Tristan at Longborough, Die Meistersinger in Mainz, Lohengrin in Pforzheim and Tannhäuser in Tallinn the new Overture Opera Guide to Die Meistersinger, ed. Gary Kahn, Mark Berry's After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from 'Parsifal' to Nono, and Matthew Bribitzer-Stull's Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music The issue is in part a tribute to Wagner Journal editorial boar

The Wagner Journal - July 2015

We are pleased to announce the July 2015 issue (vol.9, no.2) of The Wagner Journal, which contains the following articles:   • 'Gender, Sexuality and Love in Wagner: An Electronic Roundtable' featuring Barry Emslie, Sanna Pederson and Eva Rieger • 'Rienzi in Swedish (1865): The Case of the Stockholm Score' by Owe Ander • 'Nazi Cinema and Wagner', by Hans Rudolf Vaget • 'Broomhilda Unchained: Tarantino's Wagner' by Adrian Daub and Elisabeth Bronfen Plus reviews of: The Mastersingers at ENO Parsifal in Berlin CD recordings of Der fliegende Holländer conducted by Andris Nelsons, Llyr Williams's Wagner Without Words, Seattle Opera's Ring and the 1961 Solti Die Walküre starring Hans Hotter and Jon Vickers Books: Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera by Bryan Gilliam and early studies of Wagner by Ferdinand Praeger, Francis Hueffer, William James Henderson and Ernest Newman, reprinted in the Cambridge

150th anniversary of the première of Tristan und Isolde

This 10 June, 2015, we are celebrating the 150 th anniversary of the première of Tristan und Isolde (Munich, 10 June 1865).   According to the French-born American historian and philosopher, Jacques Barzun, the year 1859 was a pivotal year. In 1941, Professor Barzun wrote a seminal work, Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage . The recently deceased Columbia University professor said that in 1859, three major revolutionary works were finalized: The Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin, the Critique of Political Economy, by Karl Marx, and Tristan und Isolde , by Richard Wagner . Since then, biology, social sciences and music have acquired new meanings and dimensions and we are still living with the results of such major revolutions. For many Wagnerians, Tristan represents the supreme peak of the master’s musical inspiration (equaled, perhaps, but never surpassed by his later works); its music and words are a sublime praise of love, a love that is so

March 2015 issue of The Wagner Journal

The March 2015 issue (vol.9, no.1) of The Wagner Journal , which contains the following articles:   • 'Where's the Drama?': Personal Reflections on the Intersection of Music and Theatre in Wagner Performance by David Breckbill • Knappe oder Ritter? A study of Gurnemanz by Peter Quantrill • Wagner and Science: Twilight of the Gods Across the Multiverse by Mark B. Chadwick • The Rosebush Pictures of Wagner's Daughter Isolde by Dagny R. Beidler plus reviews of: Tristan und Isolde at Covent Garden Lohengrin in Zurich and Amsterdam Das Rheingold in British Columbia Parsifal in Tokyo Also: CD recordings of a complete Wagner cycle conducted by Marek Janowski and the 1961 Bayreuth Tannhäuser conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, starring Wolfgang Windgassen, Victoria de los Angeles, Grace Bumbry and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Hilan Warshaw's film Wagner's Jews on DVD new books on Wagner and film by David Huckvale and Kevin C. Karnes, Wagner's Visions by Kathe

Tristan at Longborough 2015

Following the success of their 2014 Ring Cycle, Longborough Festival Opera has clearly positioned itself on the international operatic stage as a Wagner production house of great merit. Additionally, the 2014 summer season was virtually a sell-out. 2015 opens with a new production of Tristan und Isolde, in the hands of Music Director Anthony Negus, directed by Carmen Jakobi. The double cast features Rachel Nicholls and Lee Bisset sharing the role of Isolde, while Peter Wedd and Neal Cooper take on Tristan. Longborough Festival Opera

Kokkola Winter Accordion Festival: Wagner performed with accordion and baritone

XVII Kokkola Winter Accordion Festival Tue 17.2 In the Master’s Company An Evening with the Music of Richard Wagner Central Ostrobothnia Conservatory 19.00 Pitkänsillankatu 16 Esa Ruuttunen baritone Janne Valkeajoki accordion Roman Schatz text For the first time in the music world, the German master composer’s music will be performed with accordion and baritone. World-class baritone and young musician Esa Ruuttunen will fill the hall with a captivating musical performance. Starring the author Roman Schatz. Ruuttunen is one of the best Finnish baritones and has performed at many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including the Finnish National Opera, Savonlinna, Bavaria, Stuttgart, London, Vienna and Berlin. In this concert Ruuttunen will treat audiences to Wagner’s most famous arias, including The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin and others. The performance also will feature Franz Liszt arra