BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - A renovated Richard Wagner Museum opening in Bayreuth this weekend to coincide with the Bavarian city's annual Wagner opera festival puts the composer's anti-Semitism and ...

Viennese historian Hamann's important biography tells the complex story of Winifred Wagner (1897–1980), Richard Wagner's daughter-in-law, who headed the Bayreuth opera festival during Hitler's rule.

BERLINBERLIN — A Russian baritone who was due to sing the lead role in Richard Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” when the Bayreuth opera festival opens next week withdrew from the event Saturday after it ...

erlín, 12 may (EFE).erlín, 12 may (EFE). — La sombra de Adolf Hitler planea sobre el bicentenario de Richard Wagner, ocasión que había generado un amplísimo programa de actos en toda Alemania, de ...

Like the sybaritic Ludwig who ruled Bavaria 50 years ago, Adolf Hitler has a fanatic admiration for the operas of Richard Wagner. King Ludwig liked to think of himself as Lohengrin or Parsifal, fixed ...

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For the first time since Hitler, opera fans are trooping once again into the big red brick Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, the Bavarian shrine Richard Wagner built to honor his own music. For many, the 7 5 ...

Berlin – An Israeli orchestra played its way into history Tuesday night by performing a piece by Richard Wagner, Hitler's favorite composer, at the renowned Bayreuth Festival in Berlin. The piece, the ...

Russian singer Evgeny Nikitin has pulled out of one of the world’s best-known opera events, the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, because he has a Nazi tattoo, organizers said Sunday. Nikitin was in a ...