The March 2023 issue (vol.17, no.1) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles:
• Wolfgang Mende on Wagner’s compositional process as revealed in his sketches
• Genevieve Robyn Arkle on Wagner’s use of the turn
• Derek Hughes on new witnesses of Toscanini’s Bayreuth
• Chris Walton on a bizarre legal case involving wire-netting at Tribschen
• Interview with Keith Warner about his new Meistersinger for Vienna
Plus reviews of: the Ring at the Berlin Staatsoper, Die Meistersinger in Vienna and Der fliegende Holländer in Toronto; Parsifal Suite (constructed and conducted by Andrew Gourlay) and Wagner by Arrangement, vol. 3 (arr. Ben Woodward); DVDs of the Ring from the Deutsche Oper (2021), dir. Stefan Herheim, and Bayreuth (1979/80), dir Patrice Chéreau; Laurence Dreyfus’s novel Parsifals Verführung and Charles Ellis: Wagner’s ’Ring’
www.thewagnerjournal.co.uk