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Bayreuth is the only opera that's any good to me

Bayreuth is the only opera that's any good to me

Living with thirty kinds of salami : a portrait of 75-year-old Pierre Boulez anno 2000.

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Aug 27, 2022
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Pierre Boulez

Auteur :  Jos Hermans

“The simple fact that Bayreuth, after the brilliant inauguration of the Festival, attended by all the ruling aristocracy in 1876, was condemned to silence from 1877 to 1882, with the première of Parsifal, left Wagner bitter and, even more so, perplexed. Was his dream of a national art premature, or was it a mere illusio…

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