Breaking: Israel bans Wagner cinecast from the Met
mainThe Metropolitan Opera was all cockahoop a few weeks back when Russia, China, Israel and a host of other nations joined its cinema beam-up from Manhattan central to 1,600 theatres around the world.
But international relations come with a snag. Peter Gelb has just admitted that the Jerusalem Cinematheque will not take two Wagner operas in its package – Siegfried and Götterdämmerung.
Wagner is regarded in Israel as an antisemitic antecedent to Hitler.
‘This is not censorship,’ said the cinema manager.
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