Dutchman Controversy lands at Bayreuth

Zachary Woolfe covers the latest controversy at Bayreuth – the cancellation of Evgeny Nikitin- in this weekend’s edition of the International Herald Tribune. Today I visited the apartment at 14 rue Jacob where Wagner composed ‘Flying Dutchman’ in the winter of 1841-1842.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/arts/music/evgeny-nikitin-and-wagners-flying-dutchman.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all