Richard Wagner

She writes that the passion for Wagner among the precious and intellectually snobbish is dying out; he is less fashionable now, while Bayreuth is developing a populist, carnival aspect. Wagner snobs, she says, have been...

Zulu compresses into short compass the events of imperial expansion leading up to the legendary British-Zulu battle at Rorke's Drift in January 1879, and Götterdämmerung encapsulates in one hour and seventeen minutes the plot of...