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Wagner sisters end feud cycle for 99th Bayreuth festival

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First festival under sole direction of composer’s great-granddaughters offers chance to modernise 134-year-old event Not so long ago they were siblings at war. Now the great-granddaughters of Richard Wagner have put their feud behind them because they have a show to roll out, and the world’s music critics are watching closely. The first Wagner festival to take place under the sole direction of its new chiefs, Katharina Wagner and her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier, opens this Sunday. Wagner...Read Full Story

Germany opens taboo-shattering Wagner festival

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Germany's 100th Wagner opera festival kicked off here Monday in an edition that will include a taboo-busting performance by an Israeli orchestra. The annual tribute to the works of the 19th-century composer, a fervent anti-Semite who later inspired Nazi leaders, will include for the first time a concert by musicians from Israel , which maintains an unwritten Wagner ban. On Monday afternoon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet led a parade of...Read Full Story

Israeli orchestra to play Wagner in Germany

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An Israeli orchestra will perform works by Adolf Hitler 's favorite composer, Richard Wagner , in a taboo-breaking concert in Germany next year, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. The Israel Chamber Orchestra will play works by Wagner at the Bayreuth festival in Germany in July, spokeswoman Meirav Magen Lelie said. It will be the first time an Israeli orchestra has played Wagner in Germany. Since its founding in 1948, Israel has observed an informal ban on Wagner's music because of its use in Nazi...Read Full Story

Israeli orchestra set to play at Wagner festival

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JERUSALEM ( Reuters ) - An Israeli orchestra is set to become the first ensemble from the Jewish state to play a German festival associated with Richard Wagner , a composer admired by Adolf Hitler and whose music has been controversial in Israel . The Israel Chamber Orchestra will perform in July in the northern Bavarian town of Bayreuth where Wagner lived the latter part of his life until his death in 1883. He built an opera house there, designed to host his own expansive works. Israeli...Read Full Story

Wagner for kids marks modernized Bayreuth Festival

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BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - Wild ovations resonated as 200 spectators paid tribute to the musicians who had brought Richard Wagner's opera Tannhaeuser and the Singer's Contest at Wartburg to this southern German stage. The scene from this year's 99th Bayreuth Festival -- an annual month-long operatic marathon for aficionados of the 19th-century German composer -- would not have been unusual, had the ecstatic reception not come from an audience of six to 12 year-olds. The children's version of...Read Full Story

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