Simon Callow's Wagner book

[Mike Scott Rohan]

Callow, an intelligent and musical actor (the original Mozart in Amadeus), did a one-man show on Wagner for Covent Garden in the anniversary year. This book, chiefly a biography, grew out of that, and I'm just reviewing it, in between house sale problems. It's really pretty good, elementary by our standards and with some of the usual viewpoints, but for from the kinds of idiocy usually written about him. He implies pretty clearly that Wagner's unpredictable anti-semitic outbursts may have been a mild form of something like Tourettes. More when I've got the review done.

Cheers,

Mike

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==Wagner's unpredictable anti-semitic outbursts may have been a mild form of something like Tourettes

Of course, it's a shame that the much missed Mike never wrote more about this after reviewing the book. Actually his name appears on the back page recommending it. This area of the Tourettes style action is described well by in Simon Callow.


Jonathan Dunsby