"A sniveling gnome with exceptional talent" — or so the composer was once described. Yet with his Bayreuth Festival, Richard ...

Conductor Gemma New and stage director Louisa Muller explore what makes the production such a potent addition to the Santa Fe ...

On the eve of an election where the choice is nothing less than democracy versus neo-fascism, you don’t have to know much more about Richard Wagner than I do to find Alex Ross’s Wagnerism: Art ...

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 ...

In this pithy, knowing phrase, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche summed up the immense influence that the composer Richard Wagner exerted not only on music but on broad swaths of culture.

LEIPZIG, Germany — How quickly Richard Wagner changed his mind about “Rienzi,” his first successful opera. In his self-aggrandizing memoir, “My Life,” assembled at the request of the ...

Which is why, not long into my resolution, I decided to jump into the deep end and listen to all of Richard Wagner’s opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Top Stories.

Verena Wagner Lafferentz passed away last month. She was the last surviving grandchild of the composer Richard Wagner. The death of a 98-year-old widow in Germany last April attracted worldwide ...

Operatic comics. The male superhero with the closest ties to the “Ring” is Marvel’s Thor. In 1980, comic-book veteran Roy Thomas penned several issues of the Mighty Thor that used elements ...

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.