150 Years of Festival: Bayreuth Says "No" to the Right
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One hundred and fifty years after the first Bayreuth Festival, the festival is not only returning to its beginnings, but is also once again testing the boundaries of its own repertoire.
The opening of the Bayreuth Festival takes place differently than usual: For the 150th anniversary, the director Katharina Wagner clearly opposes the right-wing shift in the country. In his greeting, Chancellor Merz addresses Wagner's anti-Semitism.
The Bayreuth Festival premieres "Rienzi" today. Wagner's opera is closely intertwined with Hitler, was glorified by the Nazis as the Führer's "awakening experience"—and also reveals parallels to contemporary populism. By J. Jahn.
In Bayreuth "forbidden" and Hitler's "Favorite Opera"? Richard Wagner's early work "Rienzi" is legendary. It premieres for the 150th anniversary of the Wagner Festival in the Festspielhaus for the first time. What you need to know about the opera.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Bayreuth Festival, the director Katharina Wagner spoke out against racism, chauvinism and a trivialization of history.
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