The Vargas Blog

Superheroes are the loneliest creatures on Earth. They occupy a kind of double life, one in which the mask is not merely a disguise but a ho...

I walked into an early morning showing of Christopher Nolan ’s new film The Odyssey convinced that it is an impossible task to successf...

   Thus far, the Donald Trump administration decision to release previously classified information about UFO (or UAP as we are calling them...

Tristan und Isolde might be Richard Wagner 's greatest work for the stage. A work inspired by the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer an...

  Mikhail Bakhtin , the great Russian literary critic, wrote that the novel as a literary genre is a series of carnivalesque episodes; essen...

I can't believe that WagnerOperas.com is twenty-two years old. Not to sound cliché about it, but it only seems like yesterday when I dec...

 I spent this weekend updating the Wagnerians page of the Wagneroperas site. Click here to go to the page, and take a listen to the new a...