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

Des Moines Metro Opera has become one of the country’s most successful smaller companies doing adventurous repertory in a 467 ...

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 ...

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

Dr. Ganzer, in his article on Wagner as a forerunner of the German Revolution, shows that Wagner was the greatest enemy of Liberalism and Materialism, and although for a time he may have seemed to ...

DEATH OF RICHARD WAGNER. Share full article. Feb. 14, 1883. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from February 14, 1883, Page 4 Buy Reprints.