Germany's monthlong celebration of Richard Wagner's operatic canon has opened in Bayreuth. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband, Joachim Sauer, and Bavarian governor Guenther Beckstein are among the guests who arrived at the Festspielhaus for the Bayreuth Festival's opening performance of Wagner's last major work, "Parsifal." It's the last time that the festival Less Space at Oktoberfest, but More Expensive ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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