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The Nazi crusade against modern art

The Third Reich sought to cleanse Germany of "decadent" art. Maybe it's just a history lesson with no relevance

Salon

Wahnfried review – madness, monstrousness and a mischievous Wagner daemon

Avner Dorman’s chilling opera about the toxic Wagner clan’s in-fighting comes to the UK in an effective and lively staging by Polly Graham

The Guardian - UK

The Flying Dutchman at Opera Holland Park review: ambitious and intense

3/5 This retelling of Wagner’s fourth opera is substantial, even if the staging doesn’t work at points

Evening Standard

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From the sacred to the profane: the Wagners, Bayreuth and Parsifal

Wagner’s final opera comes to Glyndebourne this week. Why will the composer and his wife be turning in their graves? Michael Downes looks at the family’s attempts to keep Parsifal in Bayreuth

The Guardian - UK

7 myths about the Vikings that are (almost) totally false

All that you've heard about the Vikings may not be true.

LiveScience

'It’s very dear to many people': Katharina Wagner on reviving 'Lohengrin' for the Liceu

175 years since it was first performed, Katharina Wagner presents 'Lohengrin' at Barcelona's Teatre Liceu - with a surprise twist...

Euronews

From My 'Commonplace Book,' No. 9: Thomas Mann, Richard Wagner, and Adolf Hitler

There's nothing like a look back at Germany in the 1930s to help us appreciate that things are not as bad as they could be

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Bayreuth trims 150th anniversary festival, citing budget cuts

The Bayreuth Festival has dropped four productions from its 150th anniversary season in 2026 because of budget cuts

The Independent UK

Chilly Gonzales at the Albert Hall review: music's cult hero triumphs with Jarvis Cocker as his Private Dancer

5/5 The cult musician welcomes special guests but reinforces his own superstar status with an unpredictable, funny and virtuoso performance

Evening Standard

Groping, greed and the lust for great power: what Wagner’s Ring Cycle tells us about Trump v Harris

US politics may lack swords and spears, dragons and talking birds, but Wagner’s tale of money, power, rivalry and grudges still carries striking parallels with the US elections

The Guardian - UK

Male bonding doesn’t have to be about bravado and bros. Dancing on stage naked taught me a better way

Friendships based on sport and alcohol don’t always allow us to be our true selves. Shared vulnerabilities enrich our lives, says Swedish writer Gunnar Ardelius

The Guardian - UK

Wagner in Auckland: can performing a famously antisemitic composer hit the right note in 2024?

Whenever the music of Richard Wagner is performed, the composer’s famously antisemitic views come back into sharper focus. With a harrowing conflict in the Middle East and rising antisemitism elsewhere, the “Wagner question” is almost inevitable.

The Conversation

Brian Cox hopes new Classic FM show will get listeners looking at the universe

He will join Global’s Classic FM station to host his first Saturday show from 9pm to 10pm for six weeks.

The Independent UK

Simone Young to be first Australian conductor to perform at Bayreuth festival in 147-year history

The Australian conductor will also be the first woman to perform the Ring cycle at the annual celebration of Wagner since it began in 1876

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The Independent UK

Bayreuth Festival to have three women conductors, three years after gender barrier broken

The Bayreuth Festival will have three female conductors this summer, three years after the podium gender barrier was broken at the annual showcase of Richard Wagner’s operas

The Guardian - UK

Richard Franklin obituary

Actor who played the dashing Capt Mike Yates in 1970s episodes of the long-running TV series Doctor Who

TechRadar

The Final Fantasy 16 soundtrack stands above other game scores this year by combining modern storytelling and classical techniques

Final Fantasy 16’s music combines techniques from past and present to make a bold and distinctive sound.

The Guardian - AU

Fifteen hours of Wagner: Opera Australia’s Ring Cycle brings big spectacle – and a world first – to Brisbane

The high-tech production took 27 semitrailers to load in – and while tickets aren’t cheap, the marathon pays off

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Queen Camilla's romantic birthday surprise that King Charles did 'against his better judgement'

Queen Camilla's romantic birthday surprise from King Charles involved him being 'persuaded' to take part in something pretty special

AAP

'Ring nuts' descend on Australia for epic Wagner opera

Wagner's 15-hour Ring Cycle is being staged in Brisbane for the first time, attracting opera buffs from all over the world.

Chicago Sun-Times

Magnificently terrifying tale of ‘The Flying Dutchman’ soars in grand staging at Lyric Opera

It’s director’s Christopher Alden’s production design that makes a grand impression. Its vertigo-inspiring sets and creepy costumes by Allen Moyer, coupled with lighting by Anne Militello, literally rock the senses as if in a haunting dream.

The Independent UK

A month after Prigozhin’s suspicious death, the Kremlin is silent on his plane crash and legacy

A month after Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a suspicious plane crash, the Kremlin seems to be succeeding in keeping the demise of the profane and outspoken Wagner chief as low-key as possible

Salon

"The Other Black Girl": Work is a horror

There are no jump scares in Hulu's new thriller, but the dread of being Black in a mainly white industry is real

Chicago Sun-Times

Fall classical music preview: An early-music collaboration and 10 more highlights of the season

Riccardo Muti returns, Lyric Opera goes to sea and Newberry Consort joins forces for the first time with Haymarket Opera Company.

The Independent UK

The Wagner mercenary group's second-in-command is buried in a quiet Moscow ceremony

The man who is believed to have given Russian mercenary group Wagner its name has been buried at a military cemetery in Moscow

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