BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - Richard Wagner's great grand-daughter Eva Wagner-Pasquier said she felt overwhelmed with emotion on Sunday at the official opening in Bayreuth of a renovated museum ...

Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, and WEB Du Bois all drew on his work. Hitler was his most fateful disciple. Has the composer’s legacy been misunderstood? At the beginning of Siegfried, the third opera in ...

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At midafternoon almost every day this month, mannerly crowds file into the drab and muggy Festspielhaus in Bayreuth to witness an opera by Rich ard Wagner. It is nearly midnight when they file out ...

He was a brilliant composer, a confirmed anti-Semite and an undeniably significant influence on the history of music. And today, he would have been 200 years old. That man, of course, was Richard ...

Any time spent with the erudite actor/writer Stephen Fry is a pleasure, and therefore the documentary “Wagner & Me,” in which Fry spends nearly 90 minutes contemplating his passion for the music of ...

San Francisco Opera Music Director Eun Sun Kim shares plans for 2028 "Ring" Cycle, starring Tamara Wilson, Brian Mulligan and ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Iris Wagner, great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, died in Berlin on Thursday after a lengthy illness, her family told the Nordbayerischer Kurier. She was 71. Jan. 10, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific German actor Thomas Kretschmann, star of movies including The Pianist, King Kong and the upcoming Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, is to play seminal and controversial German ...

Israel's public broadcaster has apologized for playing the music of 19th-century composer Richard Wagner, a renowned anti-Semite. The classical radio station Kol Hamusica broadcast the third act of ...