The Wagner Society Zoom Events April 2021 • 2nd April: “Parsifalmania for Good Friday”, with Jeffery McMillan • 7th April: "Two Rings Revisited: Wagner and J.R.R. Tolkien" with Dr Jamie McGregor (prt 1/ 4 of Wagner and Literature) • 9th April: Lotte Lehmann (as singer), with Gary Hickling • 10th April: Sir Mark Elder CH CBE in conversation with Christopher Cook • 14th April: "Hört ich oft von Engeln sagen": Wagner Lieder on record with Professor Laura Tunbridge • 16th April: Lotte Lehmann (as teacher), with Gary Hickling • 21st April: “Oed’ und leed das Meer”: Wagner and T.S. Elliot with Dr Jamie McGregor (prt 2/ 4) • 28th April: Wagner in Victorian England, with Eduardo Bennaroch Events cost £5 to all members (including all non-UK Wagner Societies), £10 for non-members (refundable on joining) and free for students/under 30s. Please book here: https://wagnersociety.org
The March 2021 issue (vol.15, no.1) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles: • ‘Dream Work: The Inner World of Die Meistersinger‘ by Paula M. Bortnichak and Edward A. Bortnichak • ‘A Postscript to “A Breath of Sorrow“ ‘ by Eva Rieger • ’The Incest Motif in Wagner‘ by Otto Rank. Translated by Anthony Negus, introduced and edited by Christopher Wintle • ’Richard Wagner and the Artist Gustav Gaul: Newly Discovered Drawings in the Austrian National Library‘ by Chris Walton • ’Redemption from the Redeemer? Review Article on Roger Scruton and his Wagner's Parsifal‘ by Jeremy Coleman plus reviews of: productions from Antwerp, Brussels and Helsinki courtesy of Opera Vision; the New York Met’s ’Wagner Week’; performances in Berlin, Bayreuth and Hanover; the CD debut of the soprano Jenufa Gleich; Fritz Reiner’s Complete Columbia Album Collection; the Cambridge Companion to Wagner’s ’Der Ring des Nibelungen’; Michael Buckley’s Dramatic Technique a