Word: supermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bayreuth can count on plenty of festival fans. There are still purists who consider Wagnerian opera just brassy, pretentious twaddle about supermen, but they are a musical minority. Bayreuth is much less concerned with defending Wagner's music than with denazifying him-and, if possible, giving an internationalist, pro-democratic profile to the man who called himself "the most German of the Germans...