Word: operation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish resistance groups which continue to oper ate in Palestine...
Berlin alone has four opera houses, two of which (the Stadtische Oper and the Staatsoper) are open the year round. At a conservative estimate they produce about ten times as much opera per annum as is seen at the Metropolitan...
...later years, Wagner was one of Germany's prime anti-Semites. He wrote Das Judenthum in der Musik (Judaism in Music), in Oper und Drama attacked a Jewish composer-Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Beer, of a Berlin banking family). But in the 18405, his letters now reveal, Wagner licked Jewish boots and liked it. Meyerbeer, whose brassy, spectacular operas influenced Wagner's early work, was a power not only in Berlin but in Paris, whose musical tastes he formed...