ALEX LUBERT is Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, Jewish Studies, and American Studies at the University of Minnesota, USA. MATTHEW BRIBITZER-STULL is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Minnesota, USA. GOTTFRIED WAGNER is great-grandson of composer Richard Wagner and great-great grandson of composer-pianist Franz Liszt. Dr. Wagner works internationally as a multimedia lecturer, director (stage, video, and radio), musicologist, and author.

'The promise is great: a 'dissonant' reading of Wagner's operas for the 'New' Millennium.This rich and varied account of Wagner as understood at the beginning of the 21st century summarizes and continues those powerful debates that so marked the close of the 20th century: the debate about Wagner and anti-Semitism leads now into an original reading of 'Wagner and disability'; studies examine 'Wagner and performance' from Glenn Gould to contemporary Israel; essays on the opera's structure and its meanings ask difficult questions for our time.A valuable addition to your Wagner library.' - Sander L. Gilman, Emory University 'This collection of essays offers ample evidence that our fascination with Wagner and his works continues unabated across the millennial divide, both in the popular and the scholarly realms.The papers in this collection focus primarily on Wagner's still disturbing anti-Semitism, and on crucial aspects of his formidable compositional technique associative musical themes, harmonic and tonal structure, and formal structure.Both cultural historians and musical scholars will find much of interest here.' - Patrick McCreless, Yale University

• Lingering Dissonances in Wagner Scholarship - M.Bribitzer-Stull and A.Lubet On the Need to Debate Richard Wagner in an Open Society: How to Confront Wagner Today Beyond Glorification and Condemnation - G.Wagner Tracing Mathilde's Aß Major - R.Gauldin Glenn Gould and Richard Wagner - T.Maloney Subverting the Conventions of Number Opera from Within: Hierarchical and Associational Uses of Tonality in Act I of Der fliegende Holländer - W.Marvin Naming Wagner's Themes - M.Bribitzer-Stull In Search of C Major: Tonal Structure and Formal Design in Act III of Die Meistersinger - W.Darcy Lingering Discourses: Critics, Jews, and the Case of Gottfried Wagner - M.Weiner Wagner's Emblematic Role: The Case of Holocaust Commemoration in Israel - N.Sheffi Richard Wagner and Disability Studies - A.Lubet Anti-Semitism in Music: Wagner and the Origins of the Holocaust - P.Lawrence Rose