On occasion, an opera performance is so pitch-perfect, so theatrical, that the audience asks for more when the final curtain ...

A book that has nothing intrinsically wrong with it from a Torah perspective (i.e., it does not contain heretical or inappropriate sexual content) can be read despite the fact that the author was a ...

Israel's public broadcaster has apologized for playing the music of 19th-century composer Richard Wagner, a renowned anti-Semite. The classical radio station Kol Hamusica broadcast the third act of ...

“It can’t be helped: one must first become a Wagnerian.” In this pithy, knowing phrase, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche summed up the immense influence that the composer Richard Wagner exerted not ...

Adolf Hitler loved music—especially Wagner. In Mein Kampf, he had written: “My youthful enthusiasm for the Bayreuth master knew no bounds.” The Third Reich, Hitler said, had its foundations in the ...

Alex Ross’s capacious and enthralling new study, “Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music,” is perfectly timed. Richard Wagner’s music, particularly that for his epic, doom-suffused opera, ...

When the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner finished writing his Third Symphony in 1873, he dedicated it to Richard Wagner, the creator of the monumental Ring cycle and arguably the preeminent figure in ...

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Verena Wagner Lafferentz passed away last month. She was the last surviving grandchild of the composer Richard Wagner. The death of a 98-year-old widow in Germany last April attracted worldwide ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.