Hertz first came to prominence conducting Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Conducting Wagner is like a drug.

But when Daniel Barenboim, an Argentine-born Jew, conducted Wagner in Israel in 2001, he provoked a storm.

Rattle conducting Wagner that night.

Wood also successfully challenged the widespread belief that Englishmen were not capable of conducting Wagner.

When he conducted Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera, he made the stand for the conductor higher so that the audience could see him.

In 1936, Arturo Toscanini conducted Wagner in the second program of the Palestine Symphony, as the Israel Philharmonic was then called.

Onstage, Kurt Masur conducted Strauss and Wagner: two dead Germans by way of a living one.

Joel smiling faintly, hiding behind a mane of brown hair, sentences like fading fugitives, hands making circles in the air, tracing out the ineffable, or is he conducting Wagner?

In fact, when Mahler conducted Wagner in Vienna, the opera was sometimes interrupted by the hissing and jeering of anti-Semites in the audience.