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 ...
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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