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 ...

A new exhibition at the country’s national history museum examines the strong feelings stirred by its most famous 19th-century composer. By Ben Miller BERLIN — Few composers inspire such a mix of ...

Then Mr. Toscanini, at the Philharmonic-Symphony Pension Fund concert in Carnegie Hall, devoted an evening to Wagner, and ...

Former German infantryman Hans Himsel lived through scenes in 1944 at the Bayreuth opera house worthy of the finale of Richard Wagner’s “Gotterdammerung” when Valhalla goes up in flames. In this ...

“It can’t be helped: one must first become a Wagnerian.” In this pithy, knowing phrase, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche summed up the immense influence that the composer Richard Wagner exerted not ...

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

WHETHER we admit or not the first dogma of the Wagner creed, that the individual arts have in past times reached their highest possible degree of development, and that the highest art-work of the ...

When the Los Angeles Opera launches its most ambitious project to date — a 10-week citywide festival celebrating Richard Wagner’s “The Ring,” which will culminate in a massive production of the epic ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt4cg699 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt4cg699.4 Given the importance that Schoenberg placed on the notion of ...

Wagner’s music deeply resonated with me in a spiritual way, with its forward-looking harmonies that ushered in the radical transformation of early 20th-century music, in a abstract expressionist way.

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 ...