Wagner’s final opera comes to Glyndebourne this week. Why will the composer and his wife be turning in their graves? Michael Downes looks at the family’s attempts to keep Parsifal in Bayreuth When ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Apple Music Classical launches the first time-synchronized “Listening Guide” to Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen for the epic’s 150th anniversary. Apple Music Classical is elevating the classical ...

Stephen Fry has been in love with the music of Richard Wagner since he was 11 years old, which would be a case of 'so what?" if the German composer hadn’t been an avowed anti-Semite and thus an ...

What do Liz Lemon, Bugs Bunny and Apocalypse Now have in common? A love of Wagner might not be the first thing that springs to mind. But these are just some of the places in popular culture the German ...

As a composer, Wagner stands among the giants. He made a monumental contribution to music with operas like Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tannhauser and Parsifal, a body of work that sounds to many of his ...

The Swedish soprano spoke to us ahead of her Royal Opera House performances as Brünnhilde in Barrie Kosky’s new staging of Wagner’s Siegfried Swedish soprano Elisabet Strid has become one of the most ...

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Given the casualness with which allegations of racism are made against historical figures nowadays, it makes sense to be wary of such sweeping judgments. Failing to use language that would be ...