All that lives and soon must die
A history of the Bayreuth Festival. Part 7
Author : Jos Hermans
For Winifred Wagner, it seemed obvious that with the outbreak of war in 1939, the Bayreuth Festival would be temporarily disbanded just as it had been during the First World War. Hitler, on the other hand, insisted on keeping the theaters and opera houses open to demonstrate the Third Reich's commitme…
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