The Wagner Museum in Bayreuth has acquired a new extension

Bayreuth (Germany) - Bavaria's Bayreuth is in the spotlight of the media thanks to the opening of the famous, now 104th edition of the Richard Wagner opera festival. Partly contributing to this was the collapse of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chair, which fell apart during the intermission of the festival's ceremonial opening on Saturday evening. Thus, the news that the Richard Wagner Museum has reopened today in the city after several years of renovation has somewhat been overshadowed.
    Merkel attended the performance of the opera Tristan and Isolde, which opened the festival, in apparently good spirits on Saturday. However, during the second intermission, she inadvertently caused a stir in a restaurant when her chair broke beneath her.
    The tabloid paper Bild reported in its first news that Merkel had collapsed. This was promptly denied by the Chancellor's spokesperson Georg Streiter, who stated that it was not the government leader who collapsed, but the chair she was sitting on. "The Chancellor was not unconscious at all," he assured.
    The Haus Wahnfried villa has served as Wagner's museum in Bayreuth since the 1970s, where the famous composer lived. In the last five years, the building underwent an expensive renovation worth 20 million euros (over 540 million crowns), during which a new structure was also added.

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