Wagner in Russia (9/9)
Epilogue : Wagner after WW II
After 1945, there was understandably a long period of abstinence towards Wagner in the Soviet Union. The critic Eduard Stark had watched Wagner’s works disappear from the repertoire one by one in the thirties. Before he learned of the unexpected decision to stage Die Walküre at the Bolshoi in 1940 (which was of course…
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