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Updated: July 23 2010, 21:46 CET
BAYREUTH: From this weekend the German city of Bayreuth will be under the spell of the music of German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) again. Sunday the annual music festival of operas by Wagner kicks off. This years program includes: Lohengrin, Parsifal, Götterdämmerung, Die Meistersinger and Das Rheingold. Since the first performance back in 1876 the so-called „Gruene Huegel“ in Bayreuth annually inspires Wagner enthusiasts all over the world. Wagner himself conceived of and promoted the idea of a special festival to showcase his own works, in particular his monumental cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal.Performances take place in a specially designed theatre, the Festspielhaus. Wagner personally supervised the design and construction of the theatre, which contained many architectural innovations to accommodate the huge orchestras for which Wagner wrote.
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Updated: Updated: June 22 2010, 19:46 CET
ZURICH: This week the Novartis Gallery of the Museum Rietberg opens her doors to ‘Falcons, Cats and Crocodiles’ an exhibition about Animals in Ancient Egypt from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, presenting some 100 objects created over a period of 4,000 years.Read more
Updated: May 8 2010, 13:07 CET
AMSTERDAM: This weekend the Giro d’Italia kicks of in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. On this occasion and especially for the culture minded cycling fans the Rijksmuseum presents ‘Radiant Madonna’, a display of three restored ‘tondi’ (round paintings) from the Italian Renaissance.Read more
Updated: May 18 2010, 21:14 CET
BERLIN: Since last week Berlin is celebrating the 47th edition of the German language theatre festival: Theater Treffen. Centrepiece of the festival are the ten ‘most remarkable productions’ selected each year by an independent jury of critics from around 400 plays presented in one season.Read more
Updated: March 31 2010, 19:36 CET
BERLIN: The Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin presents Treasures of the Aga Khan Museum. Masterpieces of Islamic Art, the first exhibition of objects from the collection of the Aga Khan in Germany. On show are more than 200 masterpieces chosen to document more than one thousand years of cultural history.Read more
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