As the Bayreuth festival turns 150, we look at the composer’s huge and enduring influence, and wonder what might have happened to classical music in his absence?

The art world has always been a bastion of globalism, with artists constantly borrowing from one another to create new, previously inconceivable works. In our increasingly anti-globalist, ...

WHETHER we admit or not the first dogma of the Wagner creed, that the individual arts have in past times reached their highest possible degree of development, and that the highest art-work of the ...

Sir John Tomlinson, whose thoughts specifically about the Prom Parsifal in which he sang the role of Gurnemanz follow below, says it all about clutter versus simplicity: “people talk about directors ...

The American attention span, we hear, is growing shorter. Twitter has reduced our utterances to sound bites; Facebook pulls us away for our regular doses of dopamine with the satisfaction of each ...

Pitchfork Book Club highlights today’s best new music books. Imagine an episode of Billy on the Street in which the game show’s irascible host, the comedian Billy Eichner, hounds New York City ...

WATCH: The Israel Chamber Orchestra played a work by Richard Wagner during the annual Wagner opera festival in Bayreuth,Germany. (video: Reuters) Members of the Israel Chamber Orchestra challenged a ...

In Germany, every crop-haired infant Siegfried, every pig-tailed little Brünnhilde counts Richard Wagner one of Nazidom’s special heroes. Composer Wagner not only glorified pagan German gods and ...