Richard Wagner
Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek review – a wearying Wagner update
The Nobel prize-winning writer turns the Ring cycle drama into a grim dialogue about capitalism’s perils
Peter Conrad
28, Feb, 2021 @9:00 AM
ENO announces bold plan to stage Ring Cycle from the autumn
Richard Wagner’s four-part opera epic will play at London’s Coliseum over several years
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
24, Feb, 2021 @7:01 AM
From the sublime to the ridiculous: our critics best and worst of Wagner's Ring Cycle
Ahead of Radio 3’s broadcast of all four operas, we asked our writers which moments of the epic they love the most – and which they hope to never hear again
Tim Ashley, Andrew Clements, Rian Evans, Erica Jeal, Martin Kettle, Fiona Maddocks, Stephen Moss, Rowena Smith and Flora Willson
15, Feb, 2021 @12:01 PM
Raw, brave, wild and honest: why Germany is Europe's greatest artistic nation
Germany became a unified state 150 years ago this week – and no other country has produced such original, provocative and powerful art since, from Richter to Klee, from Dix to Höch
Jonathan Jones
19, Jan, 2021 @4:38 PM
Richard and the revolutionaries: why did lefties love Wagner?
His antisemitism made him a far-right icon. So what attracted reds and radicals from Lenin to George Bernard-Shaw to the tumultuous sounds of Hitler’s favourite composer?
Alex Ross
17, Sep, 2020 @5:00 AM
A downtick for all the upticks, please
Brief letters: Boris Johnson and Wotan | Covid and Brexit fair play | Ladybirds | Grandparental mortality | A rise in upticks
Letters
15, Sep, 2020 @4:57 PM
Wagner's treaty warning to the Tories
Letters: Boris Johnson’s attitude to international law inspires Wagnerian comparisons from reader Graham Bould, while Dr Anthony Isaacs urges Gina Millar to intervene. Mark Stallworthy says the row has exposed Suella Braverman’s shortcomings
Letters
13, Sep, 2020 @3:32 PM
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross – review
This account of Wagner’s influence on the great and ghastly is passionate and encyclopedic, if unfocused
Peter Conrad
06, Sep, 2020 @6:00 AM
Wagner: where to start with his music
The German composer was the most influential musician of his era after Beethoven, reinventing opera and leading the way to musical modernism – yet his music’s association with the Third Reich leaves him with a complex legacy
Martin Kettle
12, Aug, 2020 @11:00 AM
Neil Howlett obituary
Baritone who excelled in Verdi and Wagner roles for English National Opera
Barry Millington
18, Jun, 2020 @1:59 PM
Wagner’s Parsifal by Roger Scruton review – in defence of the insufferable
Nietzsche famously called Wagner’s last opera poisonous, but does its theme of redemption offer an antidote to our ills?
Stuart Jeffries
30, May, 2020 @6:30 AM
Wagner: Die Walküre review I Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
This is Wagner of scattered highlights, but the quality of the Bavarian RSO’s playing distracts from some underwhelming singing
Andrew Clements
09, Apr, 2020 @2:00 PM
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