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August 2006 Issue Patrick O’Connor A Vision In A Dream Wagner and the Art of the Theatre By Patrick Carnegy The Ring: An Illustrated History of Wagner’s Ring at the Royal Opera House By John Snelson LR
April 2010 Issue Rupert Christiansen Rhine Maiden Cosima Wagner: The First Lady of Bayreuth By Oliver Hilmes (Translated by Stewart Spencer) LR
June 2005 Issue Simon Heffer Fan of the Fuhrer Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth By Brigitte Hamann LR
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