Stephen Fry’s recent documentary on German composer Richard Wagner has been humorously subverted by comedian Darren Dutton. Dutton has spliced together clips of Fry’s acclaimed programme with The X ...

Catholic composer Sir James MacMillan considers Richard Wagner's complex life and religious faith as a 19th Century composer living at a time of great upheaval. Show more Catholic composer Sir ...

Germany today celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by ...

This year marks the bicentenary of Richard Wagner's birth. Michael White visits the divisive composer's old haunts in Leipzig, Dresden, Bayreuth and Munich.

The world is celebrating 200 years since the birth of Richard Wagner – but not Israel, where his music is taboo. Is it fair that Wagner’s works are tainted by his anti-Semitism and the Nazis ...