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

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Richard Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman will close the National Symphony Orchestra’s season with ...

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The manifest of the plane that went down in Russia is essentially a who’s who for the Wagner mercenary group: The second-in-command, who baptized Wagner with his nom de guerre, the logistics ...

Richard Wagner’s mother, Johanna, was the daughter of a baker in Weissenfels (though some papers show that she may have been the illegitimate daughter of Prince Friedrich Ferdinand Constantin of ...

Volunteers from the Anderson First Christian Church are partnering with McDonald County Sheriff Rob Evenson to provide meals ...

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For Richard Wagner, the latest technology was crucial to staging his operas. In Bayreuth, Germany, where he opened a hilltop theater in 1876 to realize his vision for his works, he promised that ...