Wagner frequently appeared on CBS Evening News from the 1960s to the 1980s, and was a key contributor to the network's coverage of the Vietnam War and other major news Richard Wagner, a longtime ...

British actor, writer and bon vivant Stephen Fry has loved the music of Richard Wagner since he first heard it played on his father's gramophone. "It released forces within me," he explains early on ...

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.

Israel's public broadcaster has apologized for playing the music of 19th-century composer Richard Wagner, a renowned anti-Semite. The classical radio station Kol Hamusica broadcast the third act of ...

Not to mention her great-grandfather. Bayreuth founder Wagner welcomed inventive perspectives on his works, though he only lived to see the "Ring" and "Parsifal" produced at the festival. He designed ...

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 ...

Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. By Alex Ross.Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 784 pages; $40. Fourth Estate; £30. HITLER CASTS as long a shadow over Richard Wagner as Wagner casts over ...

Perhaps appropriately for a company that takes its name from a composer known for his exploration of mythology, the origins of the Wagner Group’s name are spun in mystery. So far, chief Yevgevy ...

Richard and Cindy Templeton Wagner met in 1966 in Diane Sutton’s psychology class at Dentsville High School. Near the end of their freshman year at the University of South Carolina, they decided to ...

Longtime CBS News correspondent and US Army veteran Richard Wagner has died at the age of 85. Wagner’s wife, Donna Lewis-Wagner, confirmed news of his death to Deadline, revealing he died at his home ...