Word: bayreuth
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...condescending smile is enough to dash my hopes of visiting one of the most celebrated opera houses in the world, host to an exclusive festival each summer. It’s the middle of June, rehearsals are well under way. My presumption that a day in Bayreuth (I am here at the behest of Let’s Go) would bring me closer to Richard Wagner and his music already seems dubious...
...BAYREUTH, Germany—“You want to visit the Festspielhaus? Impossible...
...when I enter the empty Wagner living room, loudspeakers blare the ride of the Valkyries, from the only Wagner opera I have experienced live. But in the pension, sappy German love songs make me feel that Wagner is ever distant; I did not find him in Bayreuth. I chat with the pension owner about local cuisine and head...
...America is not only vulnerable, but a first-class target for extremist forces. Before the bomb attacks on the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City, the U.S. had been spared. I deeply hope the latest tragic episodes will not be a turning point to bringing more terror. THOMAS LEIB Bayreuth, Germany...
...Yiddish theater in New York City, and young Michael grew up in a musical household. Boyhood piano lessons were followed at the University of Southern California by studies with pianist John Crown and composer-conductor Ingolf Dahl, a summer stint as an assistant at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth in 1966, and an appointment as William Steinberg's assistant at the Boston Symphony Orchestra three years later...