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By ANDREW POWELL MUNICH \u2014 Nikolaus Bachler<\/a>\u2019s Bavarian State Opera has been having its idea of fun with the taxpayer money it receives. In connection with a new Tannh\u00e4user<\/em>, due May 21, it commissioned for its quarterly Max Joseph<\/a> magazine a discussion of Wagner\u2019s bacchanale<\/em> of distant bathing naiads and sedate sirens and downstage (dressed) nymphs. The resulting eleven-section essay by Georg See\u00dflen<\/a>, titled \u201cThe Venusberg of Machines,\u201d imagines robots in place of the various classes of ladies<\/a>, and to ram home this idea BStO further commissioned pictures by Piotr Wyrzykowski<\/a>, the \u201cmedia artist\u201d from Gda\u0144sk. See\u00dflen\u2019s thinking might have been anticipated by Intendant<\/em> Bachler. His book credits include: The Pornographic Film<\/em> (1990), Natural-Born Nazis<\/em> (1996), Orgasm and Everyday Life<\/em> (2000), Quentin Tarantino Against the Nazis<\/em> (2010), Sex Fantasies in the High-Tech World, I to III: Do Androids Dream of Electronic Orgasms?; The Virtual Garden of Pleasures; and Future Sex in Queertopia<\/em> (collectively 2012), and, his latest, Trump! Populism as Policy<\/em>. Wagner\u2019s opera<\/a> will be conducted by Kirill Petrenko<\/a> and staged by Romeo Castellucci<\/a>, with of course a separate budget and concept. Tickets run as high as \u20ac293 using a new BStO pricing scale. Bachler is the magazine\u2019s publisher; \u201coverall coordination\u201d is by Christoph Koch, the press officer.<\/p>\n Picture \u00a9 Piotr Wyrzykowski<\/p>\n Related posts:
Published: May 16, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
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