EVENT: Mike Antonovich vs. Wagner

On Tuesday, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich called for Los Angeles Opera -- which is scheduled to mount Wagners four-opera Ring cycle next spring as well as coordinate a citywide festival on the Ring -- to delete the focus on Wagner. He asks this on the grounds that Wagner was a racist and anti-Semite whose music Hitler enjoyed and employed to his own ends. In addition to Wagner, the supervisor suggests we turn to, among others, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann, great composer...

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