Anna Russell turned a lemon - her damaged singing voice - into lemonade for hundreds of thousands of adoring fans for decades. Marc Haefele says she's the perfect prelude (or antidote) to the upcoming ...

Hey, Richard Wagner -- why so serious? The 19th century German composer of “The Ring of the Nibelung" wasn't known for his sense of humor. His long, serious operas barely crack a smile while tackling ...

Anna Russell, the British commedienne, beloved for her parodies of opera, has died in Australia. A failed opera singer, she became famous in the states for her 1956 New York concert recording ...

The notoriously tough-to-get-into festival of Wagner's opera begins today in Bayreuth, Germany. Watch satirist Anna Russell's take on the... For Wagner fanatics this is no ordinary Monday. It's ...