The tenor Piotr Beczała has been impressing audiences with his back-to-back performances in Wagner's “Lohengrin” in less than ...

Angela Merkel had already come to Bayreuth in July for the opening of the Richard Wagner Festival. Over the weekend, the ...

Richard Wagner was Adolf Hitler's favourite composer, long before coming to power in 1933. The dictator saw Wagner as a ...

Wagner, though, was an operatic revolutionary who reinterpreted the illustrious art form. Opera, he thought, should not be about superficial love stories but about large themes, such as the ...

Richard Wagner was born 200 years ago this week: on May 22, 1813. In most cases, two centuries is enough to establish a safe distance, a historical world of Empire-waisted gowns and early Romantic ...

Robert Richard Wagner, 98, passed away on January 11, 2025 in Peoria, AZ. He was born in Chicago, IL on June 10, 1926 to Richard and Helen (Cordes) Wagner. He was preceded in death by his beloved w… ...

Richard Wagner, whose three-decade career as a correspondent for CBS News included covering the war in Vietnam and numerous other conflicts around the world, has died. He was 85.

MUSIC Music critic Alex Ross on Richard Wagner’s vast influence, ‘vivid mirror’ for human experience By David Weininger Globe Correspondent, Updated September 14, 2020, 5:16 p.m.

Richard Wagner had a special hall built to his exact specifications for the performance of his operas. The industrial town where it was built, Bayreuth, is now known for little other than ...

In the case of two recent films -- David Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method’ and Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ -- Wagner pervades the scores as well as the story lines, informing the ...