Utkin, who was a known neo-Nazi, named the paramilitary group after his call sign, "Wagner" — a reference to the German composer Richard Wagner admired by Nazi German officials, including Adolf ...

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 ...

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.