BAYREUTH, Germany, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Former German infantryman Hans Himsel lived through scenes in 1944 at the Bayreuth opera house worthy of the finale of Richard Wagner's "Gotterdammerung" when ...
WHETHER we admit or not the first dogma of the Wagner creed, that the individual arts have in past times reached their highest possible degree of development, and that the highest art-work of the ...
In Germany, every crop-haired infant Siegfried, every pig-tailed little Brünnhilde counts Richard Wagner one of Nazidom’s special heroes. Composer Wagner not only glorified pagan German gods and ...
In some cases, the inflammatory, Nazi-associated term has been changed out of sensitivity. What do we lose when that happens? By Zachary Woolfe There are some 10,000 words in the libretto of Wagner’s ...
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