A Maximal Understanding of Sacrifice: Bataille, Richard Wagner, Pilgrimage and the Bayreuth Festival by Philip Smith, Florian Stoll

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Review article: Christian Thielemann, My Life with Wagner by Allen, R

“…From his debut in 1985 conducting a concert performance of Rienzi to his appointment in 2015 as only the second ever GeneralMusikDirektor of the Bayreuth Festival, he has emerged as what might be seen as the latest in a long line of Wagner conductors extending back through his mentor Herbert von Karajan and his admired predecessors Hans Knappertsbusch and Wilhelm Furtwängler to such legendary figures as Hans Richter, Hans von Bülow and thus to Wagner himself. …”