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“What's So Funny?” 
Humor, Caricature,
and Satire of
Richard Wagner

“A Gilt Trip:”
The Grand European
Opera Houses

 “The Odd Couple:”
Richard Wagner and
King Ludwig II
of Bavaria
Jews and the
19th Century
French Grand Opera

Diaspora of Artists:
Literature, Visual Arts,
Music, Theater, and Film
from the 1930s
Berlin and Vienna

 Operetta in Paris,
Berlin, and Vienna
The Wartburg Dilemma:
Tannhäuser - Which version?
Dresden or Paris? 		Arnold Schoenberg as Stage Director?
Erwartung and Die glückliche Hand
Kroll Opera, Berlin 1928		 Parsifal on Stage and the Screen
New York City, 1904
Gustav Mahler
and Repertory Reform
at the Vienna Court Opera,
1897-1907		 What do Violence, Sex, and Love have to do with Puccini?
An Introduction to Il Trittico
 Richard Wagner
Stages Richard Wagner

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