BERLIN (Reuters) - In his youth, theoretical chemist Joachim Sauer found the music of Richard Wagner "bombastic". All that changed when he was in his early 20s with a chance encounter with Wagner's ...

"The Sorrows and Grandeur of Richard Wagner!" Thomas Mann said it all in the 1930s in the title of his lecture devoted to the music of the great polymath who, he argued, incorporated all the 19th ...

LONDON (Reuters) - It's happened very fast for soprano Catherine Foster, who was a midwife before she became a singer and this week will be the first Englishwoman to sing Brunnhilde for Wagner's "Ring ...

In his youth, theoretical chemist Joachim Sauer found the music of German composer Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883) “bombastic.” All that changed when he was in his early 20s with a chance encounter ...