Where’s the gay plot in Tannhäuser?
NewsThe National Theater in Košice, in Slovakia, is creating a version of Wagner’s opera in which the hero is reconfigured as the composer’s homosexual son, Siegfried (pictured).
‘Unlike in German-speaking countries, there is no distinctive performance tradition for Richard Wagner’s operas in Slavic Eastern Europe,’ says the Košice Theatre. The show opens on December 1.
Slovakia has a right-wing, anti-gay government. Could be interesting.
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