Half a century ago, when frail, poetic Edward MacDowell was No. 1 U. S. composer, the models for high-brow music were Brahms, Grieg, Wagner. Just before World War I, Kulturbolschewiks Arnold Schonberg ...

Richard Wagner was, and still is today, arguably the most controversial figure in classical music. A self-appointed deity and hyperdriven genius, Wagner is often considered the ultimate megalomaniac.

As the Buffalo Philharmonic prepares to perform Wagner's operatic prelude to Die Meistersinger, I find myself grappling with the notion of participating in the rendition of music composed by an ...

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Opera companies throughout the world are staging Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle this year to fete his 200th birthday on May 22, but Hungarian conductor Adam Fischer is having no ...

There is an opera that begins at 3 p.m. on a weekday. It is German composer Richard Wagner’s (1813–1883) opera *Tristan und Isolde*, performing at the Seoul Arts Center from the 4th to the 7th of next ...