For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption ...

"A sniveling gnome with exceptional talent" — or so the composer was once described. Yet with his Bayreuth Festival, Richard ...

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and composer, and a very controversial figure. He is credited with the 'birth of modern music'. Wagner had a pretty established musical ...

Discover the world of Wagner, the controversial composer whose work has graced box office movies, kids’ cartoons and some of ...

Transformation and Renewal” will be the focus, punctuated by the long-awaited production of Richard Wagner’s Twilight of the ...

Famous Romantic composers include Tchaikovsky ... and combined these with a direct approach to composing. Germany’s Richard Wagner also played a key role in developing the operatic genre.Before Wagner ...

Otto Schenk, an Austrian actor who became a prominent opera director revered among traditionalists, especially for his productions of the works of Richard Wagner, died Jan. 9. He was 94.

there is something worrying about his debasement before the composer of Tristan. The dedication of his Third Symphony to Wagner reads: ‘To the eminent Excellency Richard Wagner the Unattainable, World ...

director of the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth. Wagner's descendants subsequently tried to style the composer as superhuman, an idea that lives on today. The museum's current exhibition ...

Christopher Eccleston goes head-to-head with the grim reaper's cavalry in Wagner's piece. Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and composer, and a very controversial figure.