Sir Georg SOLTI, frenetically and showing underwear, doing Nazi Richard WAGNER

I'd never heard of him until this video startled me a couple of weeks ago.

I dunno, it's an eternal question, can genius evil people do genius stuff (talking WAGNER here). What caught my attention was Maestro SOLTI's (cartoonish?) conducting style. Which led to consulting Wiki about who he was, turns out a refugee from the beginnings of Nazidom, yet being an awarded best interpreter of WAGNER (back to the original irony, genius vs evil). Well, we recognize genius composition by horrible-people composers. So Jewish refugee SOLTI is magnanimous to play WAGNER. Now: about that underwear...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Solti

(/dʒɔːrdʒ ˈʃɒlti/ jorj SHOL-tee,[1] Hungarian: [ˈʃolti]; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997)[2] was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner, and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis' influence on Hungarian politics, and being Jewish, he fled the increasingly harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House, he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist. ....

Known in his early years for the intensity of his music making, Solti was widely considered to have mellowed as a conductor in later years. He recorded many works two or three times at various stages of his career, and was a prolific recording artist, making more than 250 recordings, including 45 complete opera sets. The best-known of his recordings is probably Decca's complete set of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, made between 1958 and 1965. Solti's Ring has twice been voted the greatest recording ever made, in polls for Gramophone magazine in 1999 and the BBC's Music Magazine in 2012. Solti was repeatedly honoured by the recording industry with awards throughout his career. From 1963 to 1998, he won 31 Grammy Awards as a recording artist, making him the Grammy Awards' most-awarded artist until Beyoncé surpassed his record in 2023. ....

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And a more conventionally posed pic of him: