BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - Richard Wagner's great grand-daughter Eva Wagner-Pasquier said she felt overwhelmed with emotion on Sunday at the official opening in Bayreuth of a renovated museum ...

Whenever the music of Richard Wagner is performed, the composer’s famously antisemitic views come back into sharper focus. With a harrowing conflict in the Middle East and rising antisemitism ...

Wagner himself never wished to be regarded as a composer pure and simple. He protested with some justice that his achievement covered many fields, and that any estimate of it must be based on a ...

(Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 4, 'Götterdämmerung', Movements: orchestral interlude (Siegfried's Rhine Journey) Pierre Monteux, Conductor Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam (members of) ...

Opera companies plan their repertoire years in advance, and so it is a surprise that the companies are able to keep their lineups under wraps as well as they do. Well, sort of. We got wind in 2009 ...

BERLIN, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Iris Wagner, great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, died in Berlin on Thursday after a lengthy illness, her family told the Nordbayerischer Kurier. She was 71. Born ...