RICHARD WAGNER
September 2016
Roger Scruton's book on Wagner argues that The Ring is one of the most important works of art produced in the past 200 years
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July/August 2012
'The Wagner family has never let Bayreuth and the festival out if its grip — today it is still run by two of Richard's great-granddaughters'
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