Philip Hensher

Hitler’s admiration has severely damaged Wagner’s reputation

Wagner has been long, and unfairly, associated with the Third Reich. There is nothing anti-Semitic in the operas, and in fact most Nazis detested them, says Alex Ross

Richard Wagner. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 12 September 2020
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  • Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

    Alex Ross

    4th Estate, pp. 784, £30

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