Richard Wagner, Milo Rau and the »Eternal Jew«

Frankfurter Allgemeine

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Milo Rau links Richard Wagner's "Flying Dutchman" with the chronicle of German-Israeli relations at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. This is as absurd as art hostile.

nd-aktuell.de

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Milo Rau has set himself up at the Deutsche Oper Berlin Wagner's »Der fliegende Holländer« (The Flying Dutchman) – and has staged a lumpy model for the German »Staatsräson« (Staatsräson).

Die Presse

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Milo Rau, director of the Wiener Festwochen, stages Wagner's "Der fliegende Holländer" (The Flying Dutchman) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He reaches deep into the left theatre trick box – and instead of rabbits only anti-Israeli clichés.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung

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Can you mix Richard Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman" with the 1972 Olympic assassination? Milo Rau tries to do it at the Berlin Opera - and fails grimly.

Welt

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Milo Rau first tried to shock the Israelis with Richard Wagner. In vain. Back in Berlin, he staged the "Fliegen Dutchman" with almost Wagner's lack of humor – but Wagner only delivers the accompanying music to a completely different show.