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Bayreuth flips Gatti

Bayreuth flips Gatti

There’s a pair of last-minute changes in Bayreuth’s Meistersinger tonight.

Conductor Daniele Gatti is replaced by Axel Kober.

Hans Sachs will be sung by Michael Volle, jumping in for the still-unwell Georg Zeppenfeld.

What goes round, comes round.

pic: Bayreuth’s new Meistersinger set

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