Its challenging length, fantastical plot and unsavory associations weigh on Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle. Yet it still soars.

Richard Wagner was Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, long before coming to power in 1933. The dictator saw Wagner as a kindred spirit who had inspired the masses in the 19th century with the powerful ...

Richard Wagner was Adolf Hitler's favourite composer, long before coming to power in 1933. The dictator saw Wagner as a kindred spirit who had inspired the masses in the 19th century with the powerful ...

In the Current Political Moment, Richard Wagner's Influence Is More Relevant—and Problematic—Than Ever If we can't morally reconcile art’s aesthetics, then is the art actually great?

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 ...

Like Wagner’s instrumental works from around that time, it doesn’t need to be taken out of the curio cabinet except for the occasional dusting. A similar fate shouldn’t befall “Das ...

Listen · 8:02 min David Allen, Times writer You might think of Richard Wagner as the composer of gods and myths, of the end of the world and a love that destroys — and you would be right.

Allison Carey, The Plain DealerHerman N. Matzen's statue of German composer Richard Wagner has stood in Cleveland's Edgewater Park since 1911, when it was dedicated by the local Goethe-Schiller ...

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

Richard Wagner -- the 19th century composer whose epic operas are considered to be among the greatest ever written and whose anti-Semitic views still cause controversy -- was born 200 years ago ...

Wagner’s Siegfried is a pure-blooded Aryan hero, the product of an incestuous union between brother and sister. In the movie, Sabina internalizes the myth to an obsessive degree.