As the house lights dimmed at the Shanghai Grand Theatre on July 4, the haunting prelude of German composer Richard Wagner's ...

Des Moines Metro Opera has become one of the country’s most successful smaller companies doing adventurous repertory in a 467 ...

"A sniveling gnome with exceptional talent" — or so the composer was once described. Yet with his Bayreuth Festival, Richard ...

Throughout history, love has been able to move empires, inspire immortal works, and sometimes lead people to gestures that ...

Richard Wagner (born May 22, 1813; February 13, 1883). No composer has had so deep an influence on the course of his art, before or since. Entrepreneur, philosopher, poet, conductor, one of the key ...

The manifest of the plane that went down in Russia is essentially a who’s who for the Wagner mercenary group: The second-in-command, who baptized Wagner with his nom de guerre, the logistics ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Richard Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman will close the National Symphony Orchestra’s season with ...

Without a word of preliminary warning the announcement was telegraphed all over the world last night of the sudden death, in Venice, of Richard Wagner.

During the Grand Operatic Festival at Bayreuth in 1876, a number of new grand pianos of the most celebrated European, as well as of several American, makers had been placed at Mr. Richard Wagner's ...