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Wagner: reviled and revered, German history and music entwined

January 28, 2013 03:15
(Repeats without changes to text) * Half a duck and wine at Bayreuth while Germany starved * Music in contrast to Wagner's personal views - soprano Voigt * Anti-Semitism woven into the music, says author Millington * He was like a Las Vegas entertainer, German writer says By Michael Roddy

Wagner: reviled and revered, German history and music entwined

January 27, 2013 04:45
* Half a duck and wine at Bayreuth while Germany starved * Music in contrast to Wagner's personal views - soprano Voigt * Anti-Semitism woven into the music, says author Millington * He was like a Las Vegas entertainer, German writer says By Michael Roddy

Wagner: reviled and revered, German history and music entwined

January 27, 2013 04:45
* Half a duck and wine at Bayreuth while Germany starved * Music in contrast to Wagner's personal views - soprano Voigt * Anti-Semitism woven into the music, says author Millington * He was like a Las Vegas entertainer, German writer says By Michael Roddy

INTERVIEW-From bombastic to beloved, Joachim Sauer's trip to Wagner's "grail"

January 23, 2013 03:15
By Michael Roddy BERLIN, Jan 23 (Reuters) - In his youth, theoretical chemist Joachim Sauer found the music of Richard Wagner "bombastic". All that changed when he was in his early 20s with a chance encounter with Wagner's 'Siegfried'. Now the annual Wagner summer festival in Bayreuth is one of the few occasions when the media-shy Sauer is seen in public with his wife, German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Bag pheasants, cue Dutchman for Wagner time in Hungary

January 22, 2013 08:00
(Contains profanity in paragraph eight) By Michael Roddy BUDAPEST, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Only in Hungary would you see two hunters in full field regalia, with peaked hats, stride proudly into the backstage coffee house of the National Opera House one day with a brace of pheasants and find those birds on stage the next.
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