Global Wagner - From Bayreuth to the World

For Richard Wagner there only seems to be either lovers or haters! No other composer is - rightly - as highly controversial as Wagner. He was an anti-Semitic, he had debts everywhere and surely abandoned every person he ever shook hands with - still there are more than 125 so called Wagner Societies all around the globe. In the pursuit of an answer to the question: How, to until this day, did such massive hype and such a almost religious like, cult following develop all over the world.