Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wahnfried: The Birth of the Wagner Cult - Matthew Williams-Ellis What do you do when you’ve done the Ring? Longborough Festival ...

In the annals of the Wagner family, the name Houston Stewart Chamberlain is but a footnote. Yet, argues Avner Dorman's new opera Wahnfried, he was in some ways the link between Richard Wagner and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Starting to worry about a gift for your partner at Christmas? In 1869, Wagner composed his Siegfried Idyll as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Valkyries from an 1899 production of The Ring - Lebrecht Music/Alamy It takes some chutzpah to write an opera about ...

Richard Wagner’s music holds pride of place at Longborough Festival Opera, which, in its nearly 30-year history, has presented three Ring cycles. With the company’s invigorating season opener, the ...

Avner Dorman’s chilling opera about the toxic Wagner clan’s in-fighting comes to the UK in an effective and lively staging by Polly Graham The Israeli-born Avner Dorman’s opera focuses on Richard ...

What do you do when you’ve done the Ring? Longborough Festival Opera has built a great reputation for its economical stagings of the operas of Richard Wagner’s Ring, and completed its latest cycle ...

In the relentlessly skittish first act, we see the Wagner family at the family home of Wahnfried in the wake of the composer’s death, fighting and struggling to craft his legacy. This mission is led ...