Its challenging length, fantastical plot and unsavory associations weigh on Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. Yet it still soars.

May 12, 2022 / 1:02 PM EDT / CBS News Richard Wagner, an award-winning CBS News correspondent whose career at the network spanned across four decades, has died. He was 85.

Was Richard Wagner, Hitler's favorite composer, a classical anti-Semite and proto-Nazi or has conventional assumption given him a bad rap?

Richard Wagner -- the 19th century composer whose epic operas are considered to be among the greatest ever written and whose anti-Semitic views still cause controversy -- was born 200 years ago ...

Wagner frequently appeared on CBS Evening News from the 1960s to the 1980s, and was a key contributor to the network's coverage of the Vietnam War and other major news Richard Wagner, a longtime ...

The tenor Piotr Beczała has been impressing audiences with his back-to-back performances in Wagner's “Lohengrin” in less than ...

AWARD-WINNING news correspondent, Richard Wagner has died at his Virginia home surrounded by family.His death was announced on May 11, 2022. He was 85 ...

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883), German composer who was Hitler's favorite. Israeli public radio has apologized for playing his music. Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

In the Current Political Moment, Richard Wagner's Influence Is More Relevant—and Problematic—Than Ever If we can't morally reconcile art’s aesthetics, then is the art actually great?

Angela Merkel had already come to Bayreuth in July for the opening of the Richard Wagner Festival. Over the weekend, the ...