Come hear the most popular melodies, arias and orchestral excerpts from Richard Wagner's operas at the closing event of the Budapest Wagner Days festival! First held in 2023 and are now presented for ...

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 ...

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Dragons, myths and epic soundscapes: On the 150th anniversary of the Bayreuth Festival, Arts Unveiled explores how Richard Wagner changed opera and inspired today's cinematic universes.

Richard Wagner may, in the words of WH Auden, have been an “absolute shit”, but he was unlucky in the acolytes and slavish disciples he gained, and who then created a cult that ended up in some very ...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who was influenced by Wagner, won an Academy Award for his score in the 1938 film Robin Hood. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who was influenced by Wagner, won an Academy Award for ...

Was Richard Wagner a revolutionary artist who reshaped music forever, or an egotists mired in scandal, whose dangerous ideas were inseparable from the operas he created? How did the legendary worlds ...

Wagner’s dreams of love, myth and revolution shaped music that changed history. Donald Macleod uncovers the drama behind the dreams. Show more This week, Donald Macleod explores Wagner’s world of ...

There's nothing like a look back at Germany in the 1930s to help us appreciate that things are not as bad as they could be In February 1933, just a few weeks after Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of ...