What Wagner are we celebrating, the genius or the antisemite? Bold moves and controversies at 150 years of the Bayreuth Festival

The Bayreuth Festival celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, but the commemoration is marked by the eternal controversy surrounding Richard Wagner: celebrate the musical genius or ignore the composer's anti-Semitism? For the first time in the festival's history, the opera "Rienzi" was presented on the Festspielhaus stage, in an edition that seeks to debate Wagner's problematic legacy without removing it from the program. The festival's direction, currently led by the composer's great-granddaughter Katharina Wagner, has been trying to navigate between preserving the Wagnerian legacy and acknowledging his anti-Semitic views, in an increasingly difficult balance in a world that demands greater historical accountability.

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