An Israeli opera company nixed the idea of playing a piece by a 19th-century German composer known for his anti-Semitic views. The decision by the Tel Aviv Opera came after protests over a suggestion by the opera’s musical director that a work by Richard Wagner be performed. Hitler was an admirer of Wagner’s works, seeing in them an artistic form of “pure Aryanism.”
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