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 ...

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 ...

Wagner’s final opera comes to Glyndebourne this week. Why will the composer and his wife be turning in their graves? Michael Downes looks at the family’s attempts to keep Parsifal in Bayreuth When ...

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 ...

Streaming platforms for Wahnfried haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.

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 ...

Avner Dorman’s opera, which tackles Wagner’s legacy and his anti-Semitism, is clever and ambitious but emotionally empty Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former ...