Were off to a former slate mine in Northern Wales in our series Underground Europe to have balancing good time. Germanys famous by avoid festival opens on thursday with a brand new production of the opera town hall is out the story of a failed minstrel cop between the hedonistic venus and the pure princess elizabeth is seen as an allegory of the classic romantic conflict between spiritual and carnal love but this production aims to prove that its much more than just that. One point and the minstrel contest castle this is new production of record wagners romantic opera takes among Tea Meteor Approach videos open up a new perspective on the action. Im going
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a temple for wagner love as in no other oprah house is the is the present so deeply anchored in the past is the theater the focus yet focuses solely on the work of ricard log i did still run by the wagner family the festival is run by his great granddaughter naturally mean of so there s a deep sense of history that i can imagine that if you re a director or a performer and you manage to rise up to this level in the opera world that s a challenge but it s also to perform them absolutely even takes years to get a ticket i ve heard is that still the case and it takes like 3 or 4 years to get a ticket on real evil so and this is to be as cuts as debut in bio it as we heard there. as a director new production of tom has a tell us what s special about it. i think there s a lot of humor there and i was a lot the way he s using these multimedia devices i like the way he uses this film and i like i like this insight into what s happening in the scene within the