I LOVE Wagner operas, especially the ring epic. What I detest are people trying to selectively rewrite history and impose modern day values on historical figures. Wagner was indeed an anti-semite and white supremecist, and I’m sure he would have disapproved of gay marriage as well, but he was no different than most other people in his country or continent. He was a musical genius who is responsible for the wedding march that is probably played in 99% of American weddings.
Those who try to blacklist Wagner's music have the same mindset as the people trying to take Andrew Jackson off the $20 and tear down Confederate monuments and flags.
“What I detest are people trying to selectively rewrite history and impose modern day values on historical figures.”
They don’t realize that people in the future will detest what we think is acceptable now. They may nor realize that people in the past would detest what we think is acceptable now as well.