Wagner Opera

The July 2020 issue (vol.14, no.2) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles:  ‘The Use of Eastern Concepts in Wagner’s Stage Works‘ by Peter Bassett ‘Wagner and the Ottomans‘ by Emre Aracı ’Gender, Japan and the Takarazuka Revue‘s 1968  Tristan und Isolde’  by Brooke McCorkle Okazaki plus reviews of:  Tristan und Isolde  in Frankfurt,  Die Meistersinger  in Dresden,  Parsifal  in Strasbourg,  Die Walküre  in Singapore and  Siegfried  in London; the ROH  Walküre  under Pappano on DVD; a  Tristan  with Stuart Skelton and Gun-Brit Barkmin, a  Holländer  with Franz Crass under Sawallisch (Bayreuth, 1960) and a  Walküre  under Rattle on CD; Alexander Shapiro‘s  The Consolations of History , Diane V. Silverthorne‘s  Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl  and Markus Kiesel et al‘s  ...