Bayreuth's Wagner festival will offer opera online

July 1st, 2008 in Technology / Internet
Bayreuth's Wagner festival will offer opera online (AP)

View at the portal of the "Festspielhaus", the festival opera house in Bayreuth, southern Germany, July 17, 2007. Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital next month, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" live via the Internet. (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz)

(AP) -- Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" live via the Internet. The catch is the price - $77.

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