Wagner Opera

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