It’s one of the great epics of Western civilization, a four-part drama of family dysfunction and betrayal, of gods and mortals, giants and dwarfs, sacrifice and ultimate cleansing and renewal by fire ...

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Hugh Keelan, now a Brattleboro-based world-touring conductor, discovered the operas of Richard Wagner as a late teenager. “I went in with doubts — and I left a creature transformed,” he says. “I saw ...

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Richard Wagner had a special hall built to his exact specifications for the performance of his operas. The industrial town where it was built, Bayreuth, is now known for little other than productions ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Richard Wagner's operas are linked with the Rhine, but a modern concert hall beside the Danube has become a new temple for works of the 19th century German romantic who never ...