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One wants to ask, “Where does he get these people?”—and then one thinks about someone like John Mark Karr and realizes that the world can be as weird, and as distorted by media obsessions, as Wagner imagines. The gossip and references and their valences—who’s up, who’s down—are exact, “Page Six” as great literature. Names and movie titles flash by on a brilliant flood of playful verbiage—Bastard out of Northern California, for a child of questionable pedigree; Leuk Skywalker, for a cancer sufferer. The jags are so exciting they barely need a plot.
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[E]ven she never asked to stage a Wagner opera. Instead, she has passed that baton on to her daughter, Katharina Wagner, now 29, who has learnt every aspect of the Festival from both her mother & her father. So Katharina is only the second woman to direct a Wagner opera on Bayreuth’s quasi-sacred stage.
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Wagner swaggered about the art-work of the future, and his partisans hailed him as the artist of the future. He the artist of the future! He is a bleating echo of the far-away past. His path leads back to deserts long since abandoned by all life. Wagner is the last mushroom on the dunghill of romanticism. This 'modern' is the degraded heir of a Tieck, of a La Motte-Fouqué—nay more, sad to say, of a Johann Friedrich Kind.
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Although many opera-houses do introduce cuts in the scores of Wagner operas, that is supposedly never done in Bayreuth, where the totality of the operas is sacred. But how they look on stage in new productions is quite another matter.
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