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Bayreuth Festival chief dampens hopes on Hitler letters

Katharina Wagner, who co-runs the legendary Bayreuth Festival dedicated to the works of her great-grandfather Richard Wagner, dampened hopes Sunday that letters between Adolf Hitler and the Wagner family could be published. In an interview in the Sunday edition of the Tagesspiegel newspaper, Katharina reiterated her pledge to hand over the private papers of her father, Wolfgang Wagner, to the Bavarian State Archive, with the aim of shedding new light on the festival's history. "This will mean that historians and scholars can have access to this material," she said.

Celebrated German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch dead at 89

Wolfgang Sawallisch, one of Germany's greatest conductors, has died at the age of 89, the Bavarian State Opera, where he was general music director and manager for 20 years, announced on Sunday. Sawallisch died late Friday at his home in Grassau, upper Bavaria, the opera said in a statement. "The Bavarian State Opera is deeply saddened by the death of Wolfgang Sawallisch," said the opera's current chief Nikolaus Bachler.

Bag pheasants, cue Dutchman for Wagner time in Hungary

(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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