Programme

Global Wagnerism, 25 September 2026, University of St Andrews

Laidlaw Music Centre

8:45am Registration

9:00am Welcome and Introduction: Adeline Heck (St Andrews) and Timothy Anderson (East Anglia)

9:15 am-11:00am Panel One – Wagnerism in Europe

Nicholas Vazsonyi (Clemson): “Local Flavour and Global Aspiration: Bayreuth as Echo of Weimar”

Michael Downes (St Andrews): “‘The Best for this World and the Next’: Elgar’s Response to Wagner and Bayreuth”

Adeline Heck (St Andrews) and Timothy Anderson (East Anglia): “Literary Wagnerism at the Fin de Siècle in France and in the UK”

11:00am-11:30am Coffee Break

11:30am-1:15pm Panel Two – Wagnerism in (Global) English

Kerry Murphy (Melbourne): “‘Australians are miles ahead of Britons … when it comes to an appreciative interpretation of Wagnerian roles’, Richard Eckhold 1913.” [online]

Sasha Savannah Doster (Columbia): “The Souls of Black Volk: Afro-Wagnerism in Early Twentieth-Century Black Thought and Black Opera”

Emma Sutton (St Andrews): “Glasgow Girls and Wagnerian Women: The Early Reception in Scotland”

1:15pm-2:45pm Lunch for speakers

2:45pm-4:45pm Panel Three – Global Institutions

Josh Torabi (UCL): “The Dream of Universality: From National Myth to Global Wagnerism”

Brooke Okazaki (Carleton College): “Valhalla Incorporated: Millennial Tokyo’s Concert Hall Constructions and Wagner Productions” [online]

Sarah Hegenbarth (Heidelberg) & John Deathridge (KCL): “Global Wagnerism? The Case of Schlingensief”

5:30pm-6:30pm – Concert “Wagner and Post-Wagnerian Inspirations” with James Atkinson (baritone) & George Ireland (piano)

7:30pm-onwards – Dinner for speakers