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Germany: The Bayreuth Festival opens with Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser."

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July 26, 2019

Germany's famous Bayreuth Festival opens with a brand new production of the opera Tannhäuser. The story of a failed minstrel caught between the hedonistic Venus and the pure Princess Elizabeth, it's seen as an allegory of the classic romantic conflict between spiritual and carnal love. But this production aims to prove that it's much more than that.

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