Nazi <em>Tannhäuser</em> Renews Debate Over Radical Opera Stagings
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English - May 13, 2013 20:08 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Business wqxr new york public radio conducting business classical music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Last week, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf cancelled a Nazi-themed production of Wagner's Tannhäuser, when the premiere performance prompted booing, mass walkouts and even reports of audience members getting sick. With scenes that reportedly showed Jews being murdered and dying in gas chambers, it certainly shocked — but it was hardly the first revisionist opera production.