A former convict-turned-restaurateur, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s humble origins gave way to an astonishing, if unlikely, ascent.

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

For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption ...

During that time Wagner grew immeasurably as a composer, and his attitude to the questions posed in the Ring altered drastically too, but his creative integrity was such that nothing in the work ...

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and composer, and a very controversial figure. He is credited with the 'birth of modern music'. Wagner had a pretty established musical ...

John Lechner’s book offers new reporting about the mercenary Wagner Group and its former leader, Yevgeniy Prigozhin ...

a Russian military intelligence veteran who reportedly so admired Adolf Hitler that he named the group after the Nazi leader's favorite composer. Wagner forces were assigned to hunt down and kill ...

Gustavo Dudamel will conduct concert performances of Wagner’s “Die Walküre” in a highlight of his 17th and final season as ...

From Stockhausen to Wagner: important composers from past centuries claim ... and lend these compositions an autobiographical integrity. In other words, if a composer can prove that his work – in the ...

Wagner's descendants subsequently tried to style the composer as superhuman, an idea that lives on today. The museum's ...