Richard Wagner could have been a supervillain. Sitting in a cloud of rose oil on flamingo feather rugs, he was an egotistical dandy and a greedhead with a Rottweiler’s instinct for weakness, and he built a lair. So whatever he might have thought about the fuss for the bicentennial of his birth in 2013, we can only be certain of one thing — that it would not have been enough.
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