Der Ring des Nibelungen

‘I didn’t expect to love Wagner’

7 March 2026 9:00 am

By the end of Siegfried, the third opera in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the king of the gods is…

Letter signed by Wagner from an exhibition at the Saxon State and University Library in Dresden in 2013

As a writer, Richard Wagner was both sublime – and unreadable

22 September 2018 9:00 am

No one any longer denies the immense significance of Wagner’s musical-dramatic achievement, even if they find it repellent. But his…