A family with roots in the Cortez area donated two original paintings by Richard Ellis Wagner to the Montezuma Heritage ...

Richard Wagner was Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, long before coming to power in 1933. The dictator saw Wagner as a kindred spirit who had inspired the masses in the 19th century with the powerful ...

The tenor Piotr Beczała has been impressing audiences with his back-to-back performances in Wagner's “Lohengrin” in less than ...

Richard Wagner was Adolf Hitler's favourite composer, long before coming to power in 1933. The dictator saw Wagner as a ...

Angela Merkel had already come to Bayreuth in July for the opening of the Richard Wagner Festival. Over the weekend, the ...

In the Current Political Moment, Richard Wagner's Influence Is More Relevant—and Problematic—Than Ever If we can't morally reconcile art’s aesthetics, then is the art actually great?

Richard Wagner -- the 19th century composer whose epic operas are considered to be among the greatest ever written and whose anti-Semitic views still cause controversy -- was born 200 years ago ...

Wagner, though, was an operatic revolutionary who reinterpreted the illustrious art form. Opera, he thought, should not be about superficial love stories but about large themes, such as the ...

Richard Wagner’s Parsifal was performed in Stuttgart this year. A new book says too few critics have acknowledged how masterfully the composer summoned up sensuality and sexuality. Michael Latz ...

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 ...

Even those who have never experienced Wagner’s epic should have little trouble recognizing the names of some of its chief protagonists such as Wotan and Brünnhilde and her fellow Valkyries ...