Latvia blows 20 million Euros on Wagner

Latvia blows 20 million Euros on Wagner

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norman lebrecht

November 06, 2018

Not many people remember that Richard Wagner learned all he knew about music in his first kapellmeister job at the opera house in Riga, 1837-39, right?

So the Latvian government is about to spend 20 big ones on renovating its Wagner concerthall, it announced today.

(Must be an EU grant, right?)

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