Instead of Draining the Swamp, Trump Starts Renaming It After Himself Audio By Carbonatix The New Year’s resolution is a capricious thing, often arbitrarily made, haltingly followed, and quickly ...

Next year, a full opera cycle will be performed year-round at world-famous opera houses. It is the four-part opera *The Ring of the Nibelung* by German composer Richard Wagner (1813–1883), which marks ...

Richard Wagner was, and still is today, arguably the most controversial figure in classical music. A self-appointed deity and hyperdriven genius, Wagner is often considered the ultimate megalomaniac.

It's a love that has only recently developed after years of performing 'standard' repertoire. "I discovered the universe of Glass, Reich, and Adams a long time ago," Wagner tells Apple Music, "but I ...

A) Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer, who provided the soundtrack for the Third Reich, albeit 50 years after his death. B) Classical music’s most infamously outspoken anti-Semite. C) A willful, ...

Sir John Tomlinson, whose thoughts specifically about the Prom Parsifal in which he sang the role of Gurnemanz follow below, says it all about clutter versus simplicity: “people talk about directors ...

Discover the world of Wagner, the controversial composer whose work has graced box office movies, kids’ cartoons and some of classical music’s longest, most brooding operas. Here’s how to get your ...

If, like me, you prefer your opera recordings to be heard and not seen, make an exception for this DVD of Peter Sellars’s remarkably lucid staging of John Adams’s Nixon in China. A work which, as ...

“This is a book about a musician’s influence on non-musicians,” Alex Ross says. That’s good, because I am a non-musician. Ross is the premier music critic in the United States, and Wagnerism often ...

Celebrated for her exquisite artistry, Son Yeol-eum stands out as a leading pianist in South Korea. Teaming up with Bulgarian-born violinist Svetlin Roussev, Son will perform later this month at Lotte ...