Richard Wagner was one of the most gifted, historically important composers to ever grace the planet. He was also one of the most pompous, rotten, viciously anti-Semitic, amoral manipulators who ...

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 ...

British actor, writer and bon vivant Stephen Fry has loved the music of Richard Wagner since he first heard ... guides us through a picture that's half bio-documentary, half breathless fan letter.

Has the composer’s legacy been misunderstood? At the beginning of Siegfried, the third opera in Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung cycle, the dwarf Mime is trying to repair a magic sword ...

The movie will chart the journey of Richard and Cosima Wagner as they arrive in Venice following the prèmiere of Parsifal in 1882. The plot will turn on an alternative history, as it will see ...

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/; German: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] (About this sound listen); 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist ...