Current issue

The November 2013 issue (vol.7, no.3), now available, contains the following feature articles:

• 'Our English Monster-Man' [containing new research on the man who created the dragon and other props for the first Ring] by David Cormack

• 'The Mystery of Wotan's Missing Eye' by Michael Trimble, Dale C. Hesdorffer and Robert Letellier

• 'Music and the Unseen: Narrative Paradigms in Parsifal' [on the interaction of narrative and musical structures in Wagner's final opera] by Laurence Dreyfus

plus reviews of:

the Ring in Bayreuth, Longborough and Berlin, Die Meistersinger in Salzburg, Die Feen in Leipzig, Tannhäuser in Zurich and various productions in provincial German theatres

the Ring recorded under Franz Konwitschny at Covent Garden in 1959 and at the Metropolitan, New York, under Erich Leinsdorf in 1961–2

Bryn Terfel as Wotan 'with missing eye' in Keith Warner's productionof the Ring for the Royal Opera

Part of the set for Das Rheingold in Frank Castorf's production for Bayreuth

The Fürth to Nuremberg Express in Stefan Herheim's Salzburg production of Die Meistersinger