"Schlingensief" picked over hundreds of more qualified native German artists, is a devote 'cultural' jew, or "judaeo-christian" or simply a worshipper of shit and scams. More about this "rising star", here:

"Christoph Schlingensief (b. 1960 in Oberhausen, Germany)
Schlingensief is an actor, filmmaker, talk-show host, theater director, and leader of his own political party, Chance 2000. His art develops unforeseeably each day, articulating concerns with social situations and expressing a will to respond and regenerate. For P.S.1, he is going to board a plane in Berlin dressed as an orthodox Jew and continue in this costume for a full week, until travelling to the Statue of Liberty to drop secret German objects into the water."

http://www.ps1.org/cut/press/bartists.html

The following quotes are taken from a recent Spiegel article, here:
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,310389,00.html

"PARSIFAL"-Premerie in Bayreuth

At precisely 4 o'clock began the most important German Festival of international renown. The "Parsifal" production that was awaited with much excitement depicted the Galsburg as a meltingpot of nations and religions waiting together for the return of their saviour...

Today's production in Bayreuth caused a ruckus well before it was ever staged. Most recently the singer of Parsifal, Endrik Wottrich, vented his outrage at the direction of the 43 year old theater provocateur who had never before staged an opera. The intendant of the Bavarian State Opera, Sir Peter Jonas, said he was not only "absolutely not" looking forward to Schlingesief, but found it "terrible"...

At the end of the preformance Schlingensief shows a video of a rabbit being consumed by maggots...

Photos of the preformance show an extremely fat, naked woman and people that smear bloody hands on white clothes....

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I'll look for more on this. anybody got a translation:

"Wottrich complained about the coloreds in the preformance and is partial to the "concept of German purity" - a concept that he, Schlingensief, could not share. Wottrich, however, up'ed the ante in the North Bavarian Courier yesterday: "I use the word 'nigger' when I want. I don't let anyone dictate my terms, least of all from a handpuppet such as Schlingenseif" whose Parsifal production happens to be the highpoint of "non-German TeeVee-theater"; whereas Wagner's "cultural evolution stands high above primitive Afreak-can voodo magik. That has nothing to do with 'racism'. [sic] If it had been a steady stream of white Berlin hobos, I'd have objected just as strongly."

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Read it and weep culture fans:

http://www.faz.net/s/Rub5A6DAB001EA2420BAC082C25414D2760/Doc~EF41D96E51831427588AC46DDA3655150~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

Christian Theilmann has been called a nazi. Has he been involved in any Wagner productions?

Quote: "At the end of the preformance Schlingensief shows a video of a rabbit being consumed by maggots... "

Some may say it symbolically represents death.

Or mortality.

Quote "Ebanks nude an extremely fat, naked woman".
Agreed.

I think it must be so.

Quote: "Photos of the performance show an extremely fat, naked woman and people that smear bloody hands on white clothes...".
Not really. :rolleyes:

Gotterdamerung for a Niebelungen perhaps?.

For effect although not I feel for accuracy the votive dress of the Huntress and acolytes should be disrobed I feel.

As there have been historic precedents for this.

Wagner alludes to it. In Tannhauser (first movement) to an extent.