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The Importance of Being Unfaithful to Wagner
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Shane Williams |
Nov 02, 2026 |
In 1993, the London Review of Books conceived the remarkable idea of assembling three gentlemen to pass judgment upon Richard Wagner: Paul Lawrence Rose, a Jew and one of Wagner's most determined prosecutors; Edward Said, a Palestinian... |
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On Being Unfaithful to Wagner
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Shane Williams |
Nov 01, 2026 |
This is a fascinating 1993 article from the London Review of Books, in which some genius thought to bring together a Jew (Paul Lawrence Rose), a Palestinian (Edward Said), and a Wagner apologist (Michael Tanner) to discuss Wagner: Edward Said ·... |
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The Villain Behind the Sun
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Shane Williams |
Nov 01, 2026 |
That boldest of Wagnerians, Barry Millington, has declared with the confidence of a prosecuting attorney that antisemitism is "woven into the fabric" of Wagner's operas, not merely stitched onto their surface, not merely lurking in a character's... |
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Nibelheim, Middle-earth, Narnia and Hogwarts
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Shane Williams |
Oct 25, 2026 |
When the artist of the Future — he who, spurning the mere Opera of effect, of gilded emptiness, of the Franco-Judaic commerce in melodic trinkets, dared to descend, as Wotan into the sulphurous clefts of Nibelheim, into the primal depths of the... |
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On the Necessity of Not Understanding German for the Proper Translation of the Wagnerian Music-Drama
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Shane Williams |
Oct 25, 2026 |
With the unveiling of my website, devoted to the music-dramas of Wagner and bearing new English translations of the poems, I owe the reader a few words on my approach to translating the German, as one who does not speak it, an incapacity which... |