Row over Jewish guest speaker at Bayreuth’s 150th anniversary reopens questions about Richard Wagner’s anti-Semitism and festival’s ties to Adolf Hitler

In scena Rienzi, opera che ha ispirato l’azione politica di Hitler. Ma oltre la messa in scena prova di una storia trasformata in monito sul valore della democrazia, a colpire…

To mark its 150th anniversary, the Bayreuth Festival remembers victims of the Holocaust — and confronts its founder's antisemitism.