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On 17 May, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (AdBK) ? Nuremberg?s academy of fine arts ? launched a special exhibition in celebration of its 350th anniversary.... more more

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Wednesday 27 July, 2005

This year's Bayreuth Festival opened with a new interpretation of Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" by Swiss director Christoph Marthaler. The stakes were high; the last Tristan, by Heiner Müller, enjoyed iconographic status. And for Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich, this year's performance was an unspectacular failure, with the notable exception of Nina Stemme's brilliant Isolde.
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