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Old February 5th, 2012 #1
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Talking Opps April 20th not a Good day to Perform Wagner's Rienzi in Berlin

Berlin's biggest opera house has been forced to reschedule plans to stage a version of Adolf Hitler's favourite Wagner production after uproar about it being launched on the Nazi leader's birthday.

Deutsche Oper, the biggest opera house in the German capital, had planned to stage Richard Wagner's Rienzi, a work that is alleged to have been found in Hitler's bunker following his suicide, on the dictator's April 20 birthday.

According to the Independent the opera house's current director, Christoph Seuferle, had penciled in the date for the opening performance to coincide with celebrations marking Deutsche Oper's 100th birthday.

But following the announcement of the original plans German daily newspaper Die Welt lead the concern as it commented 'Hitler's opera staged in Goebbels' opera house during it's anniversary year on the Fuhrer's birthday: bad idea.'

The plans have since been revised and a statement issued by the Deutsche Oper said 'Staff have stated during in-house discussions that for personal reasons they find holding the premiere of this opera on this evening to be difficult or impossible.'

Although the plans have been altered following the complaints, however, the premiere will still go ahead, a day later, on April 21.

Rienzi, which tells the story of Italian folk hero Cola di Rienzi, who leads an uprising against the nobility, is said to have become a favourite of Wagner fanatic Hitler when he first saw it as a teenager.

It has even been suggested that he admired the work so much that the prelude to the composer's 1842 production was used at Nazi rallies and often prefaced his speeches.

He is said to have been such a fan of the production in fact that he asked for a manuscript of the work for his 50th birthday and historians suggest it was found with him following his death in 1945.

It is not the first time that the Berlin based opera house has been at the centre of a row and in 2006 its plans to stage a production of Mozart's Idomeneo sparked furious political debate.

Politicians in the capital called for the production to be canned because of the final scene in which the severed heads of Buddha, Jesus, Poseidon and the Prophet Muhammad, were displayed on stage.

The production was called off at the time but was staged in full two months later.




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