News from the Members

Photos:
Portrait of Mathilde Wesendonck by Carl F. Sohn (1850)
Cartoon of Wagner from Punch (1882), punning on the purveyor of ‘cycles‘, though the spokes of his penny-farthing invoke other operas of his
John Barbirolli, photographed in 1947

The November 2020 issue (vol.14, no.3) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles: 

• ‘ “A Breath of Sorrow“: The Tragic Romance of Richard Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck‘, with six poems of Mathilde's published for the first time, by Judith Cabaud and Barry Millington
• ‘Agents of Loving Empathy: Wagner Heroines Reassessed‘ by Kate Hopkins
• ’Wagner, Berlioz and the Origins of Über das Dirigieren‘ by Chris Walton
• Wagnerism – No End in Sight‘ by Diane V. Silverthorne

plus reviews of: 
Der fliegende Holländer at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 
Tristan und Isolde under Barbirolli,
Alex Ross‘s Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music,
two major studies of Wieland Wagner and Richard H. Bell's Theology of Wagner‘s ‘Ring‘ Cycle.

www.thewagnerjournal.co.uk