The sinking of the RMS Titanic is one of those reliable touchstones that can always be used as a time-keeper for historical fiction. Although only the fifth most deadly shipwreck of all time, it is ...

Richard Wagner’s dream of Total Theater—a sweeping synthesis of dance, music, spectacle, and poetry—didn’t come cheap. Bayreuth, the theater built expressly for his all-encompassing Ring Cycle, ...