descendants of the last german kaiser want parts of their state back to get the background story. and we're off to a former slate 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 caught between the hedonistic meanest 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 point in the minstrel contest castle sees new production of ricardo wagner's romantic opera takes a monkey meatier approach to life videos open up

a new perspective on the action. i'm going to fulfil our contest takes place on 2 levels you get closer to the characters for example when there's a burthen time who is a reunite you see backstory the emotions this box for time horses opponents you see what effect these performances have you don't see the consequences but also a kind of emotional as well as a very concrete backstage story. of concrete objects that story director to be a strat so has also incorporated the by rote festival theatre itself into his production inside the singer's fight over love and lost while outside tom has his weird artist friends occupying nevada temple proclaiming freedom of art in the good old atticus tradition.

couldn't care it's not about 2 conflicting concepts of love and life but rather about 10 points are reflecting on the role of art should the artist aim to please the satisfied upper class by submitting to aesthetic rules or is art about something into twined with real life an artistic expression that we aims 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. so 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 outsiders 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 you were going through a stage in 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. as a serious. part of our christian group. i'm a clown. i come out as a clown. 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 does 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 fishville house is like a temple for wagner love those in no of the opera house is the is the present so deeply anchored in the pos is the theatre the focus yet focuses solely on the work of ricard log and i would 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 are a director or a performer and you manage to rise up to this level and they offer a world that's a challenge but it's also to perform them absolutely and even takes years to get a ticket i've heard is that still the case takes like 3 or 4 years to get a ticket on real evil so this is to be as cuts as de doo in bio it as we heard there. as a director new production of time has a tell us what's special about it. i think there's

a lot of human 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 his insight into what's happening in the scene within the characters between the characters i also like that they take over the spill house itself and that's quite is a lot of you know that thing on my device yeah i mean it's not something that's particularly new engine we see it we've seen this. before but i think he does it in a well in a good way to. receive remains to be seeing. that's always very exciting yeah until later i write fishville house is steeped in tradition and a lot of the audience members that go there they have very clear ideas about how the 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 and tell us just quickly

about town has it himself played by american by the american tenor stephen gold yes stephen got his from boston and yet he's one of the most one of the most sought after heroic tennis in the world today quite an expert on wagner he is an expert on wagner he made his debut in 2004 playing tom who is a. pirate festival in 2004 he actually started as a musical singer so he did like he did i think 8 years of phantom of the opera before really moving people really moving into opera such an interesting transition indeed conductor valerie givens also there for the 1st time everybody environment like that likes a good controversy for that that'll be interesting by what festival is on until august 28th i believe the editor of production so a feast for wagner fans thanks very much melissa 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 pottstown on 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 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 palace which has just

completed a 10000000 euro. policy is to keep these places open to the public residents' rights or 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 horn solon's 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 whole insolence did indeed play a jew role in the weimar republic vilhelm was a nazi party and a member and a big fan of adult hitler 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 huns solon's helped bring the nazis to power but the family is now just puting 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 step closer to the common goal of both sides to reach an agreement that satisfies both sides and is the i'm storing in the matter of the syrian out of court settlement might now be possible say the hole in silence. or keep an eye on that well for our serious underground europe we head to northern wales where a vestige of the country's once thriving slate industry has been repurposed in a very original way the 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 northern 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. for visitors. they have to dong safety training overall and helmets. their own wondering what awaits them. what did start this yeah and this movie is going to be even negotiating dark i guess yeah. luckily i'm not.

real looking forward to see the. fireworks i mean the government into what it looks like no but. it's. worth going from one live to. see it. now there's no turning back after a short ride on an old morning train they arrive at the cavern and the underground trunk early. there are 3 trampolines on different levels joined by a long tunnel 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 over the company tried to cooperate with the concept 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 some fit all around all of this inside so i'm sure all the around. 8 degrees celsius but everyone as soon warmed up and they could jump and bounce to their heart's content. i look like great fun that does bring us to the end of the show over don't forget that you can go to our website anytime for more arts and culture news so for myself and the team here in berlin all the best to win hopes new again next time but i won't use.

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