Discover the world of Wagner, the controversial composer whose work has graced box office movies, kids’ cartoons and some of ...

A guide to Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman featuring the voices of Wagner experts This isn't just an opera, it's a pageant, an event. It's Wagner.

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and composer, and a very controversial figure. He is credited with the 'birth of modern music'. Wagner had a pretty established musical ...

Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption victims of ...

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 ...

Germany’s Richard Wagner also played a key role in developing the operatic genre.Before Wagner, the action and music in opera was split into short pieces or 'numbers' much like a modern-day musical ...

Transformation and Renewal” will be the focus, punctuated by the long-awaited production of Richard Wagner’s Twilight of the Gods.

The Winter Music Recital Series begins on Friday, Feb. 7 with pianist Nikolai Lugansky. Fresh off the release of Richard Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes, Lugansky will be performing works by Mendelssohn, ...