British actor, writer and bon vivant Stephen Fry has loved the music of Richard Wagner ... he explains early on in Wagner & Me, an exuberant and deeply personal documentary about the allure ...

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 ...

Ralf Pleger’s oddball documentary, made for German TV, does this by presenting itself as an “interactive multimedia” approach to the music and life of Richard Wagner. “He’s one of the ...

The composer Richard Wagner was rabidly anti-Semitic ... Filmed on location in Germany, Italy and Switzerland, this documentary uncovers some dramatic but little known stories, told through ...

The movie will chart the journey of Richard and Cosima Wagner as they arrive in Venice following the prèmiere of Parsifal in 1882. The plot will turn on an alternative history, as it will see ...

On January 13, 1933 the newly-elected National Socialist Party celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Richard ... A recent documentary, The Wagner Family, alleged that the Wagner family knowingly ...

See About archive blog posts. Filmmakers have been borrowing and adapting the music of Richard Wagner since the dawn of cinema. The 19th century German composer’s lush, dramatic music often ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary ... of the heroines of Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner. At the beginning of her ...

Fraught with adultery, debt, fierce rivalry and intensely isolating narcissism, Wagner’s own story was nearly as operatic as those he created for the stage. “Master or Monster: Richard Wagner at 200,” ...