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On Contemporary Opera and Wagner’s ‘Jewry in Music’

Andrew Joyce Occidental Observer September 27, 2015 This month marks the 165th anniversary of the publication of Richard Wagner’s landmark essay ‘Das Judenthum in der Musik.’ Almost right on cue the opera scene, particularly in Berlin, has recently played host to a series of episodes that would have the Old Sorcerer spinning in his grave. Back in June Kirill Petrenko, ...

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