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The Wagner Journal July 2018

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

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