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“Furtwängler is one of the greatest Bruckner interpreters of all time, and this version is among the finest of them all,” ...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Forest Hills Kevin Wilhelm sold property at 714 Cascade Road to Rachel Harriet Corn-Hicks for $195,000.

North – where the tight cramp of winter night cuts hard into the span of each day’s light, and long-handed shadows scrape shapes across the frigid land, where sublime and lethal beauty linger in the ...

Richard Henry Wagner, of San Anselmo, California, passed away on October 18, 2025. Born on October 23, 1931, to Joseph and Mary Wagner, Richard was raised in Brooklyn, New York. At age 17, he attended ...

Richard A. Wagner, who passed away on Monday, November 18, 2024, will be lovingly remembered and honored at a graveside service on Sunday, October 5, at 1 p.m. at Pine Grove Cemetery in Boylston. The ...

When Ludwig II, Bavaria’s mad king, wished to honor his friend Wilhelm Richard Wagner on his sist birthday in 1864, he thought a piano would make a nice gift. But something really original in the way ...

Richard J. Wilhelm, 93, a lifelong resident of Peoria, IL, passed away on Wednesday, August 27, 2025. He was born on October 5, 1931, to Emma and Willy Wilhelm. Richard graduated from Woodruff High ...

Staging any opera is rarely a modest undertaking, but if that opera happens to be by Richard Wagner, “modest” must go out the window. Typically, one needs a large theater, an outsized orchestra, and ...

The world had plenty of reasons to forget Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle, “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” None of the four makes sense without the others—they premiered together in 1876—but the prospect ...

The Russia-backed Wagner Group said Friday it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists and insurgents in the country. Despite Wagner's announcement, Russia ...