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'The New Yorker': Alberto Vilar's Travails

By Marty Michaels

When he was arrested for mail fraud last May, Alberto Vilar, the opera enthusiast and arts patron, was on his way to Austria to attend a new production of Wagner's Parsifal, according to an article in The New Yorker (February 13 and 20).

It turned out that the events that led up to his arrest were a tale of almost Wagnerian...

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