From 1980 to 1988 he was assoc.
The singer battled wit police outside his house after taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
He was associated with the French Radio and Television in Paris 1959-63 , and then was a professor there at the Ecole Normal de Musique 1963-65.
An order was issued for his arrest, and he had to leave Dresden; he made his way to Weimar, where he found a cordial reception from Liszt; he then proceeded to Vienna, where a Profesor Widmann lent him his own passport so that Wagner could cross the border of Saxony on his way to Zurich.
In Riga Wagner worked on his new opera, Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen, after a popular novel by Bulwer-Lytton.
Russian poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor born in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.