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

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 ...

as a sort of re- habilitation of the composer. They will indeed serve in that way. In his preface to this, as to the former collec- tion, Mr. Ellis uses the material sup- plied him by Wagner ...

What do you do when you’ve done the Ring? Longborough Festival Opera has built a great reputation for its economical stagings ...

director of the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth. Wagner's descendants subsequently tried to style the composer as ...

When it comes to Richard Wagner, one thing has long been clear: He wanted to be in control. The man who invented the idea of "Gesamtkunstwerk," a total synthesis of music, text, drama, scenery and ...