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The November 2019 issue (vol.13, no.3) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles: • ‘Knappertsbusch in Bayreuth’ by Hans Rudolf Vaget • ‘In Wagner’s Eyes: Casting Light on a Disputed Portrait‘ by Michael Trimble, Dale C. Hesdorffer, Robert Letellier and Gordon Plant •’Ernest Newman in ‘’Naziland‘’: In Search of Otto Strobel‘ by David Cormack • ‘Report on the Production of Tannhäuser in Paris’ by Richard Wagner (translated by Niall Hoskin) plus reviews of:  Tannhäuser  at the Bayreuth Festival,  Das Rheingold  at Longborough and Grimeborn,  Die Meistersinger  by Fulham Opera,  Die Walküre  in Kassel,  Götterdämmerung  in Würzburg and  Lohengrin  in Nuremberg; the Bernstein  Tristan und Isolde  (Munich, 1981) on DVD; CDs of the Hallé  Siegfried  and of Lise Davidsen in Wagner and Strauss www.thewagnerjournal.co.uk

Front cover illustration: The 20-year-old Alma Schindler-Mahler, photograph, 1900 The November 2018 issue (vol.12, no.3) of The Wagner Journal presents papers from the ‘Wagner 1900‘ conference held in April 2018 at Jesus College, Oxford, and contains the following feature articles: ‘Manifestations of the  Gesamtkunstwerk  in  Fin-de-Siècle  Vienna‘ by Barry Millington ‘ ‘‘Lonely Walk‘‘: an Unpublished Song by Alma Schindler-Mahler‘ by Deborah Calland and Barry Millington ‘Wagner’s  Tristan und Isolde , Arranged Mahler, Roller: The Will Made Visible‘ by Diane V. Silverthorne ‘How a Women’s Network Kept Wagner’s Tradition Alive‘ by Eva Rieger ‘Warning: Consuming Wagner Can be Hazardous to your Health:  Tristan und Isolde  and  Death in Venice ‘ by Nicholas Vazsonyi ‘G uy and Doll, Isolde ohne Tristan  and a Silent Soprano: Report on the ‘‘Wagner 1900‘‘ Conference‘ by Tash Siddiqui plus reviews of:  Lohengrin  at Bayreuth and Covent Garden,  Parsifal  in Paris, Munich and M

The Wagner Journal (vol. 12, no. 2), contains the following feature articles: • ‘Kierkegaard, Wagner and the Quest for Operatic Immediacy‘ by Leo Cabranes-Grant • ‘Setting the Record Straight: Wendelin Weißheimer and the Wagners‘ by Katherine Syer • ‘Wagner and Proust‘ by Jeffrey Swann •‘From Death in Venice to The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann‘s Ironic Response to Wagner‘ by William Kinderman plus reviews of: Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s Tristan und Isolde in Berlin and Pierre Audi‘s in Amsterdam; Alvis Hermanis‘ Parsifal in Vienna CDs of the Ring cycle under Karajan Books on the Hitler–Wagner nexus by Wolfram Pyta and Hans Rudolf Vaget More on Thewagnerjournal.co.uk

The March 2014 issue of The Wagner Journal (vol.8, no.1) is out. Here is a brief description of the contents: Feature articles: 'Transformation at Tribschen: How a French Literary Trio Became a Wagnerian Musical Trio' by Heath Lees, describing the visits of Judith Gautier and friends to the Wagners in 1869/70 'Tracking Träume: The Sources and Sounds of Wagner's Wesendonck Lied' by Peter Bloom on the interlocking of the Wesendonck Lieder and Tristan und Isolde 'Wagner Tenors and the Quest for the "Ideal" ' by David Breckbill 'Strange and Forbidden Fruits: A report on the conference at Leeds University' by Tash Siddiqui Plus reviews of: Parsifal at Covent Garden and the Lyric Opera, Chicago, the Ring in Melbourne and a gruelling Wagnerian extravaganza in Lille  the Ring recorded under Franz Konwitschny at Covent Garden in 1959 and at the Metropolitan, New York, under Erich Leinsdorf in 1961–2 The Rienzi directed by J