BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - 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 ...

In Germany, every crop-haired infant Siegfried, every pig-tailed little Brünnhilde counts Richard Wagner one of Nazidom’s special heroes. Composer Wagner not only glorified pagan German gods and ...

German Cultural Minister Claudia Roth has kicked a hornet’s nest by suggesting that The Bayreuth Festival, “should become more diverse, more colorful, and more youthful overall.” She suggested that ...

In some cases, the inflammatory, Nazi-associated term has been changed out of sensitivity. What do we lose when that happens? By Zachary Woolfe There are some 10,000 words in the libretto of Wagner’s ...