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Wagner in the Alps
GIUSEPPE PENNISI reports from
the 2011 Tiroler Festspiele
Too costly or too difficult (there is a seven year waiting list) to ascend to the 'holy hill' of Bayreuth, the Wagnerian Temple par excellence? There is an alternative: the part of Austria bordering with Bavaria. Well, there is Erl, a little rural village of 1450 year-round residents. Since 1613, Erl's villagers have organized, every seven years, a major Passion Play where all the population is engaged and some additional participants come from nearby hamlets...
Copyright © 20 July 2011
Giuseppe Pennisi,
Rome, Italy
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