Richard Wagner News
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A new staging of Richard Wagner’s opera “Tannhaeuser” set during the Holocaust was canceled after some scenes so upset audience members at the Dusseldorf opera house that they sought medical attention after the performance.
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The trees whisper as I tread through the forest by night, holding a lantern to avoid the roots snaking across the path. A full moon gleams through the gnarled branches, helping to light the way.
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Jewish musicians who were persecuted, exiled, deported and in some cases, murdered, are remembered in an exhibition called “Verstummte Stimmen” (Silenced Voices) at the Bayreuth Festival this year.
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Swan meat has disappeared from the menu at a hotel restaurant on the Baltic island of Ruegen after protests from environmentalists in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s home constituency.
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Spain’s Placido Domingo kissed his Puerto Rican singing partner Ana Maria Martinez, Bryn Terfel belted out tunes from his Welsh homeland and Gilberto Gil played bossa nova from Brazil at this year’s Abu Dhabi Festival.
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Soy la novia legal. Te maldigo Hagen! Brunilda era su amor verdadero.
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David Gockley , general director of the San Francisco Opera , must feel like a marathon runner who has just entered the stadium for a final lap before crossing the finish line.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel ended her weekend at Hitler’s favorite opera house along with a hundred monster rats and a large proportion of her cabinet.
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Michael Baum took every substitute teaching job he found and has sent out hundreds of resumes since graduating from college two years ago. He never got a full-time offer and works as a waiter at a pizza parlor in Chicago, earning $650 during a busy week.
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The South Korean bass-baritone Samuel Youn will sing the title role in “The Flying Dutchman” at Bayreuth Festival after Yevgeny Nikitin withdrew because of Nazi symbols he had tattooed on his chest in his youth.
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