Another Wagner joins leadership bid for Bayreuth Aug 26, 2008
The furor increased Monday with news that Nike Wagner, the great granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner, had teamed with Belgian director Gerard Mortier to apply for the job ... Richard Wagner founded the festival in 1872 and his grandsons, Wolfgang and Wieland, took charge of the festival in 1951. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
January events in the Shippensburg region (50) Aug 23, 2008
Richard Wagner to offer lecture. The Franklin County Historical SocietyKittochtinny will offer a lecture by Richard Wagner at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 24 at Grove Family Library, 101 Ragged Edge Road, Chambersburg. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Landwehr remembered for support of the arts, role in community Aug 1, 2008
The theme was used by Richard Wagner for his opera, Die Meistersinger von N. rnberg. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Bayreuth Festival opens as Wolfgang Wagner prepares to step down Jul 26, 2008
Wagner, the 88-year-old grandson of composer Richard Wagner, briefly greeted bystanders along with his 30-year-old daughter Katharina outside the Festspielhaus before the opening of the annual celebration ... Richard Wagner founded the festival, in its 97th edition this year, in 1872 ... Richard Wagner preferred to describe "Parsifal," which was opening the festival Friday, as a festival play or musical drama rather than an opera. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Zurich exile shaped Wagner's creative genius Jul 17, 2008
The nine years that controversial German composer Richard Wagner spent in Zurich exile have been hailed by an exhibition as the most formative period of his career. Wagner composed much of his opera epic, The Ring Cycle, during his stay in the city and wrote a number of essays including "Judaism in Music" that was later adopted by the Nazis. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Bridging the gap Jul 13, 2008
Barenboim is known for heresies other than bringing together Israeli and Palestinian musicians; he brought to Israel the revolutionary and remarkable - but to Jewry, tainted and offensive - music of Richard Wagner, generally famous here for being admired by the Nazis. And by scheduling Wagner with the Divan orchestra - the Prelude and 'Love-Death' from Tristan und Isolde - Barenboim threw something of a gauntlet to his fellow Israelis. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Bayreuth Festival to be webcast Jul 3, 2008
The prestigious annual event dedicated to the music of Richard Wagner will be held on 27 July ... "Those are complicated hoops, and it can be crazy to jump through them all," said Katharina Wagner, a great-grandaughter of Richard Wagner, who is staging the production ... This year's event will be the last with Richard Wagner's grandson Wolfgang as director after 57 years. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Wexler: The Swan Boats, an intimate history Jul 3, 2008
Their creator, Robert Paget, an English immigrant and shipbuilder, was inspired by Richard Wagner s opera Lohengrin in which a knight crossed a river in a boat drawn by a swan to help a noble lady in distress. Paget s descendants still own the boats he launched. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
Germany's Bayreuth opera festival plans to stream premier performance online Jul 1, 2008
Organizers hope the online screening will draw new fans to an annual event devoted entirely to the 10 mature stage works by Richard Wagner ... "Those are complicated hoops, and it can be crazy to jump through them all," said Katharina Wagner, a great-grandaughter of Richard Wagner, who is staging the production. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Heppner trying on Siegfried in Aix-en-Provence Jun 30, 2008
Those first performances in Seattle were a huge success, and he has gone on to portray the hero of Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" in opera houses around the world ... Ben Heppner is 'Siegfried,' in Richard Wagner's opera 'Siegfried' during a rehearsal in Aix-en-Provence, France. (Yahoo News)
Composers' Homes in Britain May 18, 2008
The violinist, Prosper Sainton lived in a house on Manchester Square and it was here that Berlioz met Richard Wagner, prompting Wagner to write to Franz Liszt that "I have conceived a cordial and profound friendship for Berlioz.' Berlioz took rooms at 58 Queen Anne Street WI in the St.Marylebone area, while he was sitting on a jury to judge various musical instruments at the exhibition. He was not happy with the situation and thought that it was 'abominable drudgery.' He stayed for almost two... (Suite101.com)
Wolfgang Wagner to quit Wagner festival post by Aug. 31 May 2, 2008
Wolfgang Wagner, the longtime director of the annual festival of Richard Wagner's operas, said in a letter issued Tuesday that he would step down after leading the event for nearly six decades ... He noted, however, that descendants of Richard Wagner would be given priority for the position. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
End to a sisterly feud in the Wagnerian tradition Apr 15, 2008
THE battle for control of Germany's most celebrated opera festival has ended with the feuding descendants of Richard Wagner agreeing to work together. The struggle over the Bayreuth opera festival, celebrated for its sell-out performances of Wagner's music, has been fought for years by three female scions of the composer's family. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Wagner family ends opera row Apr 15, 2008
Wolfgang Wagner, 88, grandson of the composer Richard Wagner, has put forward his daughters, Katharina Wagner, 29, and Eva Wagner-Pasquier, 62, to take over from him once he steps down. Wagner, who has for 57 years led the festival which is the highlight of Germany's cultural calendar, has apparently submitted a letter to its board, saying he is ready to renounce his lifetime director's role. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
A Wagnerian mixture of pleasure and pain Mar 24, 2008
From Monday's Globe and Mail. March 24, 2008 at 3:55 AM EDT. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
'Tristan' at the movies: The way we were Mar 23, 2008
These days, the operas of Richard Wagner come to the movies, where this year the houses of La Scala and of Tristan und Isolde. Earlier today, I saw the Met broadcast with , , , and Elke Wilm Schulte. (The Palm Beach Post)
[REVIEW] Magnificent melodies at LSO concert Feb 18, 2008
The first half of the program featured Richard Wagner s Overture to Rienzi and the Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber by Paul Hindemith. Beck entered the stage and immediately went to work leading the orchestra through a fantastic performance of the Wagner. (Lima News, OH)
LSO to performPosted 4 hours, 30 minutes ago. Feb 15, 2008
Majestic Melodies will feature several selections from some of the world s most famous German composers, said April Sroufe, director of marketing and PR. Selections include the overture from Rienzi by Richard Wagner, Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria Von Weber by Paul Hindemith and Emperor Concerto by Beethoven himself. We ve done Beethoven to Brahms, so this fit in, Sroufe said. (Lima News, OH)
'The Wagner Clan,' Germany's real-life melodrama Feb 12, 2008
None of Richard Wagner's operas surpasses the drama of his actual family story ... Who was Richard Wagner, really ... Richard Wagner, was born in Leipzig in 1813. (Christian Science Monitor)
Zen and the art of the Wagnerian opera Feb 5, 2008
In 2001, ordained Buddhist monk Paul Schofield asked permission to leave his monastery in Mt. Shasta so he could work on a book about the operas of Richard Wagner. "I came out to explain to the modern world what Buddhism and Wagner really mean," Schofield told The Triplicate. (Daily Triplicate)
Opera review: A robust opening Jan 29, 2008
user, by Richard Wagner. When: Performances continue Tuesday and Friday at 7 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m.. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Tonight at the opera Jan 27, 2008
user, by Richard Wagner. When: Tonight at 7; production repeats Tuesday and Friday at 7; next Sunday at 3 p.m.. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Looking beyond Wagner's dark shadow Jan 22, 2008
In an episode from HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David whistled a melody from Richard Wagner's Siegfried Idyll while standing outside a movie theater ... user, by Richard Wagner ... user is one of the many ways to enjoy Richard Wagner's music. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Israeli musician gets Palestinian passport Jan 15, 2008
Barenboim is a controversial figure to many in Israel, but less for the sympathy he openly shows towards the Palestinians than for his promotion of the music of the 19th-century antisemitic German composer Richard Wagner, which he has conducted in Jerusalem. He criticised the Israeli government when he was forced to cancel a concert in Ramallah after Israel said it could not guarantee his safety. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
CRACKONOMICS 101 THREE RING CIRCUS Jan 13, 2008
January 13, 2008 -- Richard Wagner is admired for his prodigious musical talent and despised for his virulent anti-Semitism. In The Wagner Clan," journalist Jonathan Carr argues that such prejudices run in the family. For more than 100 years, the Wagners, who run the Bayreuth Festival as an homage to the master's oeuvre, have been one of Germany's most notorious families. Cruel and ruthless, they hit their nadir during the Nazi era. Wagner's family, with rare exceptions, was mesmerized by... (New York Post -- Opinions)
A double dose of Strauss... with pinches of Wagner and Beethoven Jan 12, 2008
While Strauss was Austrian from the start, and Beethoven adopted Austria as his homeland in 1792, Richard Wagner lived in Leipzig, Riga, Latvia, London and Paris, Dresden, Munich, near Lucern and Bayreuth, but never Vienna. The distance from Bavaria to Austria is not a long one, so there is a tie-in with the free air unstoppable at the border. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
More of this story Jan 12, 2008
Richard Wagner wrote both the music and the libretto of Tristan und Isolde, the story of an ill-fated Cornish knight and an Irish princess. Not that the medieval romance is a quaint fairy tale; L.A. Opera describes it as "Wagner's great ode to sexual ecstasy.". (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
British composer gets a fresh look Dec 6, 2007
He was largely self-taught in composition, which rendered the composer insecure but drove him to discover the chromatic technique and scope of Richard Wagner and others. Richard Strauss himself drove that point home when he labeled Elgar, "The first English progressivist" in 1902 after hearing "Dream of Gerontius." The German conductor Hans Richter was Elgar's greatest champion. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Gudrun Wagner, part of Bayreuth opera feud Nov 29, 2007
BERLIN - Gudrun Wagner, wife of the Bayreuth Opera Festival's director and a key figure in the family battle over control of the arts institution that was founded by composer Richard Wagner, died yesterday at a Bayreuth hospital. She was 63. (Boston Globe)
Gudrun Wagner, wife of opera festival director Wolfgang Wagner, dies at 63 Nov 28, 2007
The two, married since 1976, had worked closely in presenting the festival of operas by his grandfather, Richard Wagner. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Public radio Oct 27, 2007
Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde; Directed by Thor Steinbgraber. Featuring Thomas Moser, Christine Brewer, Jane Irwin, Boaz Daniel and Kristinn Sigmundsson. (Montana Standard, MT)
Orchestra inspired by romantic art Oct 19, 2007
The orchestra will also perform two pieces by Richard Wagner, one a choral work featuring Penn State voice professor Jennifer Trost. Trost will be featured in Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder, which Wagner wrote for poet Mathilde Wesendonck, whom he had a "crush" on, Meyer said. (Daily Collegian, PA)
News in brief Oct 18, 2007
An opera by Richard Wagner - whose music and anti-semitic writings influenced Hitler - is to be performed at a theatre built under the Nazi regime by an orchestra of Israeli and Arab musicians conducted by a Jew. Conductor Daniel Barenboim said yesterday that the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra plans to perform the first act of Die Walk. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Richard Wagner Oct 16, 2007
German Composer, Critic, Teacher, 19th-century Orchestra Master. Extremely influential composer. (Suite101.com)
Hojotoho! Wagner's Music, Perfume Linger at His Villa: Manuela Hoelterhoff Oct 5, 2007
Lohengrin'' music filters into the garden where I am standing next to the joint tomb Richard Wagner occupies with his devoted wife, Cosima ... When he isn't looking for money, he answers questions from all over the world about Richard Wagner. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Soprano Mary K. Bergman to delight audiences at SJC concert Sep 26, 2007
Perfido Concert Aria in the past, in addition to wowing audiences with presentations of concert versions of major opera arias such as those by Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner. Bergman s performance at SJC will take place on at 3 p.m. CDT Sept. 30 in the St. Joseph s Chapel. (Rensselaer Republican, IN)
Great-granddaughter of Wagner moves to take over Bayreuth festival Sep 24, 2007
The great-granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner has announced her joint bid with a star conductor to take over the leadership of the annual Bayreuth festival, in the latest episode in a long-running family saga. Katharina Wagner, who made her directorial debut at Bayreuth this summer to mixed reviews, is teaming up with Christian Thielemann, the musical director of the Munich Philharmonic and a respected Wagner conductor. (Guardian Unlimited)
Katharina Wagner Wants to Lead Bayreuth Sep 23, 2007
BERLIN A great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner is teaming with star German conductor Christian Thielemann to bid for the leadership of the Bayreuth festival, the pair announced in an interview published Saturday. Katharina Wagner, 29, made her directorial debut at Bayreuth this year, producing a closely watched interpretation of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" at the annual celebration of the German opera genius. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Katharina Wagner teams up with conductor Thielemann in bid for Bayreuth leadership Sep 23, 2007
Wagner a great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, whose work is showcased at the festival made her Bayreuth directorial debut this year, producing a closely watched interpretation of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg.". That underlined her ambition eventually to lead the annual celebration of the German opera genius. (International Herald Tribune)
Bayreuth: an everyday tale of fascist folk Sep 9, 2007
She' was Winifred Wagner, nee Williams, mistress of the Bayreuth Festival, an English girl brought up in an East Grinstead orphanage, who at 18 married Siegfried ('Fidi'), the bisexual son of Richard Wagner, and died in 1980, still an unrepentant Nazi ... The terms of Siegfried's will gave her control of the Bayreuth Richard Wagner Festival so long as she did not remarry; though in AN Wilson's grippingly imaginative reconstruction of her story, she not only beds Hitler, but has a daughter by him... (The Observer)
Public radio highlights Aug 25, 2007
11:30 p.m. Los Angeles Opera - Richard Wagner: Tannhauser (in German). 6:07 p.m. Prairie Home Companion. (Montana Standard, MT)
Angst, drugs and alcohol: that's opera Aug 19, 2007
German-born Wottrich, the boyfriend of Katharina Wagner, the 29-year-old opera director and great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, said singers were treated like machines. We're faced with the choice of performing and then being attacked for failing to hit the right note, or calling in sick only to be attacked for taking things too easy. (Guardian Unlimited)
Elgar Variations: Summerscape focuses on the virtuosity of Edward Elgar Aug 11, 2007
of Richard Wagner, premiered the work, which clearly revealed Elgar's astonishing orchestral virtuosity. The variations, based on an original theme, were miniature musical portraits of friends and relations. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Did Jewish musicians soothe the Fuhrer's ear? Aug 9, 2007
Alongside predictable recordings, such as the overture to The Flying Dutchman by Hitler favourite Richard Wagner, the collection included works by composers from Russia, whose people were regarded as subhuman by Nazi ideologues, according to the report. Among the works reportedly taken by Lev Bezymenski were an aria from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, performed by Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin, and an album of Tchaikovsky works featuring star violinist Bronislaw Huberman - a Polish Jew - as a... (Globe and Mail -- International)
Russian composers were music to Hitler's ears Aug 7, 2007
Richard Wagner - ouverture of the Flying Dutchman performed by the orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival House. Modest Mussorgski - aria Death of Boris Godunoff , sung by the Russian bass Fjodor Schaljapin. (Telegraph.co.uk)
High Drama In Germany Aug 3, 2007
(08-02) 04:00 PDT Paris -- - Devotees of Richard Wagner's operas have no trouble sitting through long hours of intense music and convoluted plots, but even they may be tiring of the extended family power struggle over control of the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany, every summer ... The outcome is in the hands of the Richard Wagner Foundation, which owns the festival's theater, the Festspielhaus, and subsidizes the event. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
At Beyreuth, 'Die Meistersinger,' unsettles a Wagner legacy Aug 1, 2007
BAYREUTH, GERMANY: Like the knight Walther von Stolzing in "Die Meistersinger von N?rnberg," who composes a prize song to win his beloved Eva, Katharina Wagner has created a production of the opera with a reward in mind: an offer to succeed her father Wolfgang, Richard Wagner's grandson, as lord of the Bayreuth Festival ... The other is Richard Wagner's mean spirited treatment of the town clerk Sixtus Beckmesser, narrow-minded guardian of the rules of song ... After this, the Richard Wagner... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Scion of German composer 'relieved' after directing premiere Jul 29, 2007
Bayreuth Mayor Michael Hohl, director of the Richard Wagner Foundation that controls succession and other major issues, acknowledged the foundation would look at the succession question this fall because "discussions have become loud" about the issue ... "What kind of direction would Richard Wagner give today where he now would have a whole technical apparatus, sunken stages, light shows, also as far as costumes are concerned?" she asked ... Touching on what traditionalists consider sacrilege,... (International Herald Tribune)
Heir turns blue as audience buckets sexed up Wagner Jul 28, 2007
THE great-granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner has been jeered and booed after staging one of his operas complete with nudity, giant plastic phalluses and "raining" shoes ... "In Germany there is a problem that people always have tradition on their minds, like folk dress and lederhosen. Of course I break with that." There were no lederhosen to be seen when her production featured a cast member as the great man himself, Richard Wagner, dancing in his underpants. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Ms Wagner jeered as opera flops at Bayreuth Jul 27, 2007
The 29-year old director, great-granddaughter of the German operatic genius Richard Wagner, had her debut - a baptism of fire - on Wednesday night at Bayreuth, the festival in southern Germany which is a living shrine to the 19th century composer's works. But her interpretation, which turned the original plot on its head - Richard Wagner danced in his underpants and topless dancers took to the stage - proved too much for the traditionalists, who made up the bulk of the audience, at the same time... (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Fans rage at Wagner heir's opera Jul 27, 2007
The 29-year-old great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner was loudly booed following her directorial debut. Katharina Wagner's interpretation of The Mastersingers of Nuremberg opened Germany's Bayreuth festival, which is dedicated to staging Wagner's operas. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Katarina Wagner's Bayreuth Debut Elicits Boos and Bravos Alike Jul 27, 2007
Not everybody, it seems, enjoyed seeing Richard Wagner dancing in his underwear. Germany's annual Bayreuth Festival of Wagner operas began on Wednesday with a highly anticipated, make-or-break production by the 29-year-old great-granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner ... Bildunterschrift: And while the applause after the first two acts of Wagner's only "comic" opera was friendly, the audience -- which included a smorgasbord of German political and social elite -- was less amused by the... (Deutsche Welle)
Wagner family feuds over Bayreuth Jul 26, 2007
BERLIN A battle between three female descendants of Richard Wagner for the leadership of one of the world's top operatic events has fixated Germans ahead of the opening of this year's Bayreuth festival on Wednesday ... Richard Wagner established the opera house on the so-called Green Hill over Bayreuth in 1876 to stage operas such as his Ring cycle with its monumental scenes ... In 2001, the Richard Wagner Foundation, which has the final say, chose Eva Wagner-Pasquier, Wolfgang's 62-year-old... (Globe and Mail)
Bayreuth Wagner opera festival kicks off Jul 26, 2007
A battle between three female descendants of Richard Wagner for the leadership of one of the world's top operatic events has fixated Germans ahead of the opening of this year's Bayreuth festival on Wednesday. Wolfgang Wagner, the 87-year-old grandson of Hitler's favourite composer, has been in charge of the festival since 1951 but critics say standards are slipping and speculation is rife that his daughter Katharina will soon take over. (Xinhuanet, China)
Composer's scion battles to be Bayreuth queen Jul 25, 2007
Katharina Wagner, the great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, smiles during a break in the rehearsal of the opera Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg, which opens today at the Bayreuth festival ... The 29-year old great-granddaughter of the German composer Richard Wagner will face a crucial moment in her young career tonight when her production of the nation's most controversial opera is staged for the first time ... If the opera is thought a success, she is likely to be chosen by the Wagner... (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Wagnerian storm as composer's scion battles to be Bayreuth queen Jul 25, 2007
The 29-year old great-granddaughter of the German composer Richard Wagner will face a crucial moment in her young career tonight when her production of the nation's most controversial opera is staged for the first time ... If the opera is thought a success, she is likely to be chosen by the Wagner Foundation as the successor to the Richard Wagner throne ... Wolfgang, the frail grandson of Richard Wagner, has ruled the festival for 56 years (becoming the longest serving artistic director of any... (Guardian Unlimited)
Family feudThe battle for control of Wagner's controversial legacy Jul 21, 2007
The annual festival of Richard Wagner's music has been run by his grandson Wolfgang for 56 years ... But controversies over Wolfgang's production style fade into insignificance next to the big issue at Bayreuth, the reason many people won't go there, and that many can't tolerate Richard Wagner's music at all; his anti-semitism, and Bayreuth's indebtedness to the Nazis ... "When you're talking about Richard Wagner you cannot split up his ideas either - his anti-semitic, racist attitudes and... (BBC News)
Bayreuth Festival Lures Lepers, Wagner Nuts, Mastersingers to Green Hill Jul 13, 2007
The theater built by Richard Wagner for his own operas -- and only his -- shimmers on a green hill, beckoning to global pilgrims who sometimes wait a decade for a ticket ... Richard Wagner premiered the piece in 1868, and it's seen countless productions at the festival house. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
New 7 wonders to be announced Saturday Jul 6, 2007
Perched on a peak in the Bavarian Alps, the gray granite castle rises to towers, turrets and pinnacles and contains many paintings showing scenes from the operas of Richard Wagner, whose work Ludwig admired. . (Yahoo News)
All dressed for the fest, but no ticket to see Wagner Jul 6, 2007
" I jokingly asked the 11-year-old boy wearing a black T-shirt and reversed baseball cap in the back seat of a car in which I'd hitched a ride. "Siegfried," he answered immediately. "He likes the dragon," added his father, Stephen Specht, who was driving us to Bayreuth, Germany. Where else in the world would one comfortably ask an 11-year-old such a question? With two renowned opera houses and a world-class music scene going back to the 18th century, the small north Bavarian city of Bayreuth,... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Bayreuth, Germany: Opera-less in the realm of Wagner Jul 3, 2007
From July 25 to Aug. 28, hordes of opera lovers will descend on Richard Wagner's Festspielhaus to squeeze into one of the 1,925 thin fold-down wooden chairs those in the know bring their own cushions to watch the tuneful twilight of the gods in the annual Bayreuth Festival, which has been going on since Richard Wagner first conducted his four-opera cycle "Ring des Nibelungen" here in 1876 ... The opera house is what attracted Richard Wagner to Bayreuth in the first place, armed with a virtual... (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Pick of the Proms Jul 3, 2007
There was only another 850 years to go before Richard Wagner grappled with this tale again, turning it into one of western music's most extraordinary events: the Ring Cycle. Philip Langridge, tenor Prom 70: The Damnation of Faust (September 6). (Guardian Unlimited)
Film in Staten Island basement sets off a real furor Jun 26, 2007
A reel of film plucked from the wartime rubble of a German opera house shows Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler enjoying a Richard Wagner music festival before the start of World War II.. The film, sent home by U.S. serviceman Walter Ladziak, was found 10 years ago after Ladziak's brother-in-law, who received the package, died. (New York Daily News)
Shakespeare: The run sheet Jun 18, 2007
Spinoff: The Law Against Lovers, a play by William Davenant (1662); Das Liebesverbot ( Forbidden Love ), an opera by Richard Wagner (1836). Claim to fame: Shakespeare's sexiest play. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The agent who captured a day at the opera with Hitler May 24, 2007
They shared a love of Richard Wagner and were regulars at the annual Bayreuth festival held to celebrate the German composer's works. But although Adolf Hitler took Charles Turner for just another camera-toting opera lover, he was in fact a British secret agent. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
