Supposedly Verdi said: "Wagner has great moments but terrible half hours!"

That's such a good line I haven't researched it for accuracy.


I believe the Bayreuth observance is still pretty anti-Semitic, but of course, it long predates National Socialism.

I love Carmina Burana, and I'm sort of aware that Carl Orff was not a good guy by our current standards.

But what about German science, the development of nuclear theory on the threshold of the Atomic Age? You can't put that back in the bottle.