Of course every film and stage lover knows Stephen Fry, one ot the greatest English actors of the last decades. But Fry is much more than that. As he had been very open about his homosexuality and his psycological problems (he suffers from manic-depressive disorder, about which he has made a movie called “The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive), he has made himself extremely vulnerable.

He is also a huge Wagner fan, something that has reinforced his bipolarity; Stephen Fry is Jewish and the majority of his family were murdered in the Holocaust. He also made a film about that, Wagner & Me (1102DC).

The documentary has won awards at several festivals. Quite rightly so, as the result is not only hugely fascinating because of the internal conflict or call it a dilemma which a Jewish Wagner enthusiast finds in himself, but it also provides us with images that a mere mortal normally never gets to see.

Because, should you ever manage to get tickets to Bayreuth: you’ll never get behind the stage. I think.

Entire film:

Bit more:

Debate Verdi vs Wagner:

A little laughter: joke by Darren Duton; X Factor Special Stephen Fry on Wagner:

Stephen Fry’s website:

https://www.stephenfry.com/