Guardian Music — This remarkable creator – of orchestral pieces and chamber works as well as hybrids of film and performance art – draws on a plethora of influences, yet devises her own astonishing sound All articles in this seriesAfter Igor Stravinsky, it's a bi... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonFew figures were more important for Anton Bruckner's career than the great German-Jewish conductor Hermann Levi, and Levi's refusal to mount a performance of the composer's Eighth Symphony because he felt unable "to make it h... more info

Guardian Music — The family have taken positive steps towards dealing with Wagner's fascist associations, but they should go furtherAfter a life spent chasing fame and other people's fortunes all over Europe, as well as fleeing from creditors and displeased governmen... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — A Russian opera singer has pulled out of the Bayreuth opera festival over Nazi tattoos on his chest days before the start of the celebration of Richard Wagner's works that was once popular with Third Reich leaders. more info

Guardian Music — Former heavy metal singer quits Wagner fest after TV footage shows him bare-chested with swastika on his chestExpectations had been high for this year's Bayreuth opera festival. For the first time a Russian would be taking a lead role, with rising op... more info

Guardian Music — Adam/Kollo/Altmeyer/Nimsgern/Jerusalem/Norman/Dresden Staatskapelle/Janowski(Sony, 14 CDs)Until the proliferation of Rings issued in the last decade or so from live recordings, the market was dominated by a handful of competing sets from the LP era, ... more info

Guardian Music — Susan Froemke's documentary follows Robert Lepage's five-year journey as he stages Wagner's Ring Cycle for New York's Metropolitan OperaWagner's four-part 16-hour Ring Cycle is one of opera's most monumental challenges. Visionary director Robert Lepa... more info

Guardian Music — Town Hall, LeedsLess can be more when it comes to Wagner, and Opera North's "austerity Ring" – now on its second instalment in its second year – continues to enthral and amaze. First and foremost this is because its musical standards remain consi... more info

Guardian Music — University cancels booking, saying performance of works by Hitler's favourite composer would offend Holocaust survivorsIt was intended to break a seven-decade unofficial boycott and smash an enduring cultural symbol of the Nazi era. But the first per... more info

Guardian Music — Hallé/Elder(HLD) (4 CDs)With a fine cast led by that pearl among current Brünnhildes, Susan Bullock, and conducted by Mark Elder, an inspired Wagnerian of long standing, this live 2011 concert recording of Die Walküre is a knockout. The Hallé and... more info