Orchestra to break taboo
The Israel Chamber Orchestra’s concert in Wagner’s hometown alongside the annual Bayreuth opera festival today will mark the first time an Israeli orchestra has played Wagner in Germany, Nicolaus Richter, the head of Bayreuth city’s cultural affairs department, said.
The orchestra started rehearsing the Wagner piece, the Siegfrid Idyll, only upon their arrival in Germany on Sunday due to the sensitivities in Israel.
