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Selected contributions from 2 conferences held in Columbia, South Carolina and in Bayreuth, Thurnau and Nuremberg as part of WagnerWorldWide 2013, an international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Wagner's birth.

18 English, 2 German contributions.

Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater ; Band 25

WagnerWorldWide: interdisciplinary and international approaches / Anno Mungen

1. History and nationalism: Introduction / Nicholas Vazsonyi

Wagner's Parsifal as art and ideology, 1882-1933 / William Kinderman

Bayreuth and the German war effort: Karl Ritter's Stukas / Hans Rudolf Vaget

Twilight of an empire: staging Wagner in wartime Tokyo / Brooke McCorkle

Opera and politics: Die Meistersinger in New York City during World War II / Gwen d'Amico

2. Globalization and markets: Einleitung / Ivana Rentsch

Wagner goes east (and back again...): operatic performance between Europe and China / Barbara Mittler

Die Kulturikone Richard Wagner als Testimonial der Marke Bayreuth - eine Marketingperspektive / Claas Christian Germelsmann und Pablo Neder

Wagnerians then and now / Elfi Vomberg

Globalization and the domestic reception of Wagnerian music drama / Matthew Blackmar

3. Nature and environment: Einleitung / Arne Stollberg

Wagner's Ring as eco-parable / Thomas Grey

Luigi Nono's analytical remarks on Tristan und Isolde and the manifestation of nature in Wagner's music / Joachim Junker

Performing Wagner: Francesca Zambello's San Francisco Ring cycle as an example of performative translation - from Bayreuth to the American West / Geoffrey Green

4. Gender and sexuality: Einleitung / Anno Mungen

Wagner unmanned / Sanna Pederson

Is it a man's world? The construction of masculinities in Wagner / Gregor Herzfeld

Women's Wagner: reflections on a scattered reception / Celia Applegate

Oper, Erotik, Körper: wie Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient Wagners Venus wurde / Anno Mungen

5. Film and media: Introduction / Julie Hubbert

"What's Wagner, Doc?": Nineteenth-century German opera and contemporary American popular culture / Walter C. Metz

Staging a debate: from Kriegenburg's Ring cycle to Saar Magal's Hacking Wagner / Olaf A. Schmitt

Wagner and Fortuny: designs for the Bayreuth Theater / Wendy Ligon Smith

Loathsome Deutschtum? Wagner, propaganda and American industrial films of the 1930s and 1940s / Julie Hubbert

Wagner's form, Chéreau's scene, Large's cuts: analytical dialogues between music, theater, and video / Christian Thorau.

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 > Anniversaries, etc.

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 > Congresses.

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 > Influence.