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 ...

Was Richard Wagner, Hitler's favorite composer, a classical anti-Semite and proto-Nazi or has conventional assumption given him a bad rap?

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

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 -- 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 ...

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