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                                                –Wagner & Me

Full disclosure: I have an abiding passion for the art of Richard Wagner.

It was not always so. Like many others, I believed that his personal anti-Semitism and the Nazi appropriation of his art had sullied his work.

English actor and raconteur Stephen Fry explores his passion for history's most controversial composer, Richard Wagner.

Stephen Fry explores his passion for history's most controversial composer in an extended feature-length version of a film first broadcast in Spring

Actor and writer Stephen Fry explores his passion for the world's most controversial composer - Richard Wagner.

In Wagner & Me, Fry explores a topic that is more personal and his treatment is layered.

In the documentary “Wagner & Me,” the actor Stephen Fry, an ardent admirer of the music of Richard Wagner, wrestles with a longstanding problem for Wagner fans.

That preconception collapsed as I researched and wrote a substantial chapter on Wagner in That Line of Darkness: The Gothic from Lenin to bin Laden, Encompass Editions, 2013. Perhaps more important was my privilege of attending performances over four nights of the complete sixteen hour Ring Cycleon four occasions, experiences that I can only describe as transportive, even transcendental.

It is easy to see why I eagerly anticipated director