The Dutchman is a cursed man, a driven man, an outsider. Richard Wagner got to know the character of this homeless person from Heinrich Heine, who, however, told the romantic story with his typical irony
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Two of the most powerful men in the world shake hands - and the world is watching: with their opera about the state visit of American President Richard Nixon to Mao Tse-tung in 1972, the composer John Adams and the librettist Alice Goodman brought contemporary history to the stage
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