Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Russia accuses Wagner director of 'offending believers'

Members of Pussy Riot sit in a glass-walled cage in a court in Moscow, on October 10, 2012 for an appeal against their earlier "hooliganism" conviction for offending the church Russia on Tuesday accused the director of a production of a Richard Wagner opera of publicly offending the feelings of religious believers following a complaint from a senior Russian Orthodox cleric. Thirty-year-old director Timofei Kulyabin told AFP he has been charged over his production of Wagner's "Tannhauser" at Novosibirsk's State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Siberia, which premiered in December.








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