Hearing them outside their operatic context reveals just how powerful Wagner’s musical gift was. His music has the ability to sweep the listener along in an endless stream of expressively ...

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 ...

Parsifal is Wagner’s last and greatest music drama. It is also his most mysterious work, a paradigm of ‘late period’ art to rank with Shakespeare’s late plays and Beethoven’s last quartets. In all of ...

Michael Downes’ Story of the Century dives into the making of the composer’s monumental and controversial 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 ...

Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize. In her review from our June issue, @rosalyster delves into Tasmania, nuclear physics, romance and Chekhov.

This is the first of several in-depth studies of Wagner and his music by the renowned music critic Ernest Newman (1868–1959), leading up to the great four-volume biography The Life of Richard Wagner, ...

Israel's public broadcaster has apologised to listeners after music by Richard Wagner was played on the radio. The 19th-Century German composer remains controversial in the country because of his ...

Decades before she would play Amy Lewis on Young and Restless, triple threat (singer/dancer/actress) Valarie Pettiford played Anita in the touring company of West Side Story. The year was 1987 and ...

Funeral Music on themes from "Euryanthe" On December 14, 1844, the remains of Carl Maria von Weber were moved from English to German soil. Wagner composed Trauermusik for the torch-light procession to ...

‘Classics Unlocked’, a classical music education podcast series presented by Graham Abbott, explores Wagner’s greatest opera ‘The Ring Cycle’. Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February ...