Re. Wagner, I'm not personally too keen on his music. I vastly prefer Strauss. Find Wagner a bit repetitive.

However I enjoyed watching the first part of the ring cycle on screen at Ritzy Picturehouse cinema last year. The scene with the dwarf and the teasing rhinemaiden is seminal: definitely the most powerful part (both dramatically and musically).

I was subjected to a performance of Wagner's "Lohengrin" at Covent Garden a year or two ago. Now that is a godawful and ridiculous piece of work. It's totally fascistic. Hitler was a big fan of it and you can see why. While watching it, I was thinking you could stage a tongue-in-cheek version of it that would be magnificent (satirising the idea of the charismatic totalitarian leader). But it kind of already is it's own parody.