Entertainment & Arts
Israeli musicians plan to break Richard Wagner taboo
May 30, 2012
A planned performance of the music of Richard Wagner in Israel has been abruptly canceled following an apparent disagreement between the presenter and Tel Aviv University, which was supposed to host the event.
June 6, 2012
A classical music event in Israel is expected to break the country’s taboo on performing the music of Richard Wagner, the 19th century German composer and a well-known anti-Semite.
Composer Richard Wagner’s 200th birthday will be marked worldwide
May 22, 2013
Richard Wagner -- the 19th century composer whose epic operas are considered to be among the greatest ever written and whose anti-Semitic views still cause controversy -- was born 200 years ago Wednesday in Leipzig, Germany.
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Nov. 25, 2011
The successor to Richard Wagner’s aging grandson Wolfgang is still in doubt on the eve of festival’s opening.
July 24, 2007
Wolfgang Wagner, the longtime director of the annual festival of Richard Wagner’s operas in Bayreuth, Germany, said in a letter issued Tuesday that he would step down after leading the event for nearly six decades.
April 30, 2008