[Happy birthday Richard Wagner] 🎼🎂 Here’s to the father of total art who unified poetry, drama, music, theatre and visual arts through his operas. Join the celebration with this renowned excerpt: http://bit.ly/Toscanini_Wagner | medici.tv

30K views · 2.8K reactions | ⚓️ Today marks Richard Wagner's 210th birthday. Sail into a majestic Monday with the overture from Der fliegende Holländer ("The Flying Dutchman") with Maestro Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra! See for yourself why so many of his opera's overtures are performed in concerts, and discover his operas on medici.tv. ⚓️ https://cutt.ly/T60jRvR | medici.tv | Facebook

‘Global Wagner – From Bayreuth to the World’ is not a biography of Richard Wagner, nor is it a musicological analysis of his work. This is a documentary dedicated solely to the world’s fascination with the man, and an exploration of the question as to how such massive hype and world-wide cult following developed around this highly controversial artist. The film is a revealing feature-length study of life with Wagner’s legacy from one Bayreuther Festspiele - Bayreuth Festival to the next, and we