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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articles: ‘Manifestations of the  Gesamtkunstwerk  in  Fin-de-Siècle  Vienna‘ by Barry Millington ‘ ‘‘Lonely Walk‘‘: an Unpublished Song by Alma Schindler-Mahler‘ by Deborah Calland and Barry Millington ‘Wagner’s  Tristan und Isolde , Arranged Mahler, Roller: The Will Made Visible‘ by Diane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

Musical genius Richard Wagner ( Eddie Korbich ) and his devoted wife Cosima ( Claire Brownell ) find themselves in a moral, political and musical dilemma when King Ludwig of Bavaria ( Carlo Bosticco ) insists that the son of a rabbi, Hermann Levi ( Geoffrey Cantor ), conduct the premiere of Wagner’s sacred final opera, Parsifal .  In this comedic spin on real-life events, Maestro Levi must consider his complex relationship with the Wagners.  Does Art have its “special needs,” after all?  MY PARSIFAL CONDUCTOR is the World Premiere comedy that dares to probe that question. Written by multiple EMMY Award-Winner Allan Leicht, MY PARSIFAL CONDUCTOR is directed by the founder of the New York’s Chelsea Theatre Center, Robert Kalfin and produced by the award-winning not-for-profit theatre company The Directors Company , by special arrangement with producer Ted Snowdon. Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater at the West Side YMCA 10 W 64th Street New York, NY 10023 PE

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

Photo: Enrico Nawrath / Bayreuther Festspiele Yuval Sharon's Lohengrin on 3SAT Saturday 28 July 2018 at 20:15: If you have access to the German TV channel 3SAT , you can watch the new Lohengrin production by director Yuval Sharon Bayreuther Festspiele 2018: Lohengrin Elsa    Anja Harteros Lohengrin    Piotr Beczala König Heinrich    Georg Zeppenfeld Telramund    Tomasz Konieczny Ortrud    Waltraud Meier

 The March 2018 issue of the Wagner Journal (vol.12, no.1) contains the following feature articles: ‘Kindred Spirits of Meiningen and Bayreuth‘ by Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak ‘Turning the Telescope Round‘ [article about Ernest Newman] by David Cormack ‘Wagner and the Boryspil Pogrom: A Reply to Barry Emslie‘ by Derek Hughes “Music Made Visible“: Sergei Eisenstein's Die Walküre and the Birth of Vertical Montage‘ by Hilan Warshaw ‘Deluded Neurotic or Visionary Woman of the Future?: Senta Revalued‘ by Kate Hopkins Plus reviews of: Achim Freyer‘s Parsifal in Hamburg and Tobias Kratzer‘s Götterdämmerung in Karlsruhe DVD of Christian Thielemann‘s homage to Herbert von Karajan's 1967 Salzburg Ring CDs of the Naxos Siegfried under Jaap van Zweden, Mark Elder‘s Parsifal with the Hallé, and Wagner concert overtures under Jun Märkl More here: The Wagner Journal