mine in northern wales in our series underground europe to have a balancing good time. germany's famous by avoid festival opens on thursday with a brand new production of the opera town hall is out the story of a failed minstrel cop between the hedonistic minas and the pure princess elizabeth is seen as an allegory of the classic romantic conflict between spiritual and carnal love but this production aims to prove that it's much more than just that. one horse and the minstrel contest at castle this is new production of record wagner's romantic opera takes among teen meatier approach life e.d.'s open up a new perspective on the action. i'm going

to fulfill in our contest takes place on 2 levels you get close to the characters for example when elizabeth and time has a reunite you see backstage the emotions this box for time horses opponents you see what effect these performances have you don't only see the consequences but also a kind of emotional as well as a very concrete backstage story. of concrete objects that story directed to be a strat so has also incorporated the by rote festival theatre itself into his production inside the scene his fight over love and lust while outside tom horses weird artist friends set about occupying nevada in a temple proclaiming freedom of art in the good old atticus tradition. to get into a serial killer it's not about 2 conflicting concepts of love and life but rather about 10 hoy's are reflecting on the role of art should the ah. just to praise the

satisfied upper class by submitting to static rules or is art about something into twined with real life an artistic expression that we aim to change something in society that suspects that when wagner wrote time has run 1945 it was not yet clear whether he would go down in history as a revolutionary all as an established composer heroic tennis stephen gold has sung the role of tom who is a more than a 100 times but it's his 1st time in pyrite with a new production. but i was a little skeptic sometimes when a new concept is presented to me but i was just really i have to say within just one day of being here i was totally convinced to be as proud. in craft as production tom who is the lives out is supposed to total freedom with a group of outside as transsexuals and little people until he realizes that this life too can be a type of prison it was clear right from the very beginning when we were doing for

the staging that i needed to reach out and try to come up with something less. angry and completely defeated it's a way of looking up myself. a serious. part of our christian group. i'm a clone. i come out as a cloud. by sending tom who is there and venus together on a crazy road trip to be a scribe so has driven wagners tomboys into the present. very exciting indeed and here to tell us more about what's going on in bio artist my colleague melissa hall right welcome melissa and there's such an incredible culture surrounding the by what festival tell us why it is such a big deal in germany yet the buy right fishkill house is like

a temple for wagner love as in no of the opera house is the present so deeply anchored in the past is the theatre the focus yet focuses solely on the work of ricard that is still run by the wagner family the festival is run by his great granddaughter naturally nevada so there's a deep sense of history that i can imagine that if you're a director or a performer and you manage to rise up to this level in the opera world that's a challenge but it's also to perform that absolutely even takes years to get a ticket i've heard is that still the case if it takes like 3 or 4 years to get a ticket on the label so this is to be a scot says de doo in bio it as we heard there as a director new production of time has the tell us what's special about it. i think there's a lot of humor there i also like the way he's using these multimedia devices i like the way he uses this film and i like i like this insight into what's happening in

the scene within the characters between the characters i also like that they take over the special house so i think that's quite there's a lot of humor here that's. yeah i mean it's not something that's particularly new in general see until we've seen this. but i think he does it in a well in a good way. what receives remains to be seeing. that's always very exciting yeah we didn't know until later. fishville house is steeped in tradition and a lot of the audience members that go there they have very clear ideas about how they should be how it should be performed how it should be sell and if they don't like what they see they're not hesitant in you know letting people know people have been booed off you know scenes like that have happened that tell us just quickly about town has a himself played by american by the american tenor stephen go yes stephen got his from boston and yet he was one of the most one of the most sought after heroic

tennis in the world today quite an expert on wagner he's an expert on wagner he made his debut in 2004 playing tom who is a. yet at the pirates festival in 2004 he actually started as a musical so you know so he did like he did i think 8 years of phantom of the opera for really moving before really moving into opera such an interesting transition indeed conductor valery givens also there for the 1st time everybody environment like that likes a good contra caesar that that'll be interesting by the festival is on until august 28th i believe the editor of production so a feast for wagner fans thanks very much melissa thanks for those insights. well even though royal titles were abolished at the start of the weimar republic prince of prussia wants his royal heirlooms back the great great grandson of germany's

last kaiser and the 2nd has filed claims for the return of part of the families the state including a permanent right of residency at a palace in potsdam of the state of brandenburg wants to hear nothing of it and here's why. there's a lot more evidence of the city's prussian past in these days since germany decided to go ahead with the rebuilding of the whole palace but relations between the former noble family and the german state are not so good this is the great great grandson of germany's last kaiser the 2nd. prince of russia is the current head of the family his dispute with the authorities about former family properties has recently escalated the prince is demanding free use of the cecilia palace which has just completed a 10000000 euro. policy is to keep these places open to the

public residents' rights were right of use would be incompatible with this. but that's not all the hohenzollerns are also demanding furniture library holdings and even old masters. in the weimar republic the whole insulins were awarded properties palaces and cultural artifacts but after the 2nd world war the russians classified the hohenzollerns as war criminals and confiscated their properties it's mostly these properties that are the subject of the ral the hohenzollerns did indeed play a role in the weimar republic vilhelm was a nazi party and a member and a big fan of adult. crown prince vilhelm didn't join the nazi party but called on people to vote for hitler and posted that he had added 2000000 votes. most historians agree that the hohenzollerns helped bring the nazis to power but the

family is now disputing this with good reason since 1904 parties who significantly boost the nazis are not allowed to receive compensation talks between state bodies and the whole went on for 4 hours. if i am confident we came a small step closer to the common goal of both sides to reach an agreement that satisfies both sides. is the i'm storing in the matter of the syrian powerless and out of court settlement might now be possible say the hohenzollerns. will keep an eye on not well for our serious underground europe we had to northern wales where a vestige of the country's once thriving slate industry has been repurposed in a very original way a slate caverns west of shrewsbury now house to rainy and playground with a labyrinth of trampling offering families what they call the ultimate underground

adventure. this part of north wales near the snowdonia national park is famed for its picturesque. and. the surface however. is a different kind of attraction the biggest underground trampoline worldwide. therefore visitors can try it out they have to go on safety training overall and helmets. their old wondering what awaits them. what the darkness yeah and this means going deep underground saying dark i guess yeah. luckily i'm not claustrophobic real looking for to see or i don't mean the government into. which leaping over the cliff 11 of minutes.

we're. going from one live to. see it. now there's no turning back after a short ride on an old morning trying they arrived at the cavern found the underground trumpery. there are 3 trampolines on different levels joined by a long tunnel saw and it's all contained in this cabin which is 60 meters long and 35 meters high the operating company running it specializes in unusual attraction. it's lots of different people roll over the covering threads of the coke they came up with the concept we want we want something unique which we are fake i feel we have it so it's of the world 1st also we what we wanted so fit all around always on the same time show all the around it's a cool 8 degrees celsius but everyone as soon warmed up and they can jump.

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