'The
bicentenary of Wagner will be celebrated throughout the world (albeit
with at least one notable exception), wrote the editor of The Wagner Journal, Barry Millington, in a previous editorial. In the July 2013 issue, The Wagner Journal rectifies that omission, with a fascinating article about the Wagner ban in Israel by the Israeli scholar Nâ ama Sheffi,
whose book The Ring of Myths has just been republished in
English in a revised edition. And a brief glance at the contents of and
contributors to this issue again reveals the astonishing
worldwide phenomenon that is Wagner".
Tash Siddiqui, Guest Editor
• 'Sound of Silence and Struggle: Wagner and the Israelis' by Na'ama Sheffi
• ' "Only You Could Save Bayreuth!": The Life of Richard Wagner's Granddaughter Friedelind' by Eva Rieger
• 'Parsifal as Contagion Narrative and Discourse of Mourning' by Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak
plus reviews of:
Jonas Kaufmann in the La Scala Lohengrin and Met Parsifal; the new Zurich Holländer; and Thomas Hengelbrock's 'period' Parsifal
The Opus Arte Wagner Edition and Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen on DVD
'Wagner's Vision', a 50-CD set celebrating the Bayreuth legacy
John W. Barker's Wagner and Venice Fictionalised, Hugh Ridley's Wagner and the Novel, the Overture Opera Guide to Der fliegende Holländer, ed. Gary Kahn, The Legacy of Richard Wagner, ed. Luca Sala, Jonathan Brown's Great Wagner Conductors, and Anton Seidl's On Conducting (reprint)
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