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This is a remarkably high quality video of Wilhelm Furtwängler, one of the 20th century’s great conductors, leading the Berlin Philharmonic in Richard Wagner’s Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger at a factory in Berlin in 1942.
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I did not know that Wagner wrote a comedy opera.
Yes, although I find Siegfried funnier.
You might get in trouble if you laugh out loud you know. High romance is serious stuff for some people, especially gamers and trophy hunters.