Wagner's Master Singer, Hitler's Siegfried - The Life and Times of Max
2008 · 45m
Documentary, Music
Directed by
Eric Schulz
,
Claus Wischmann
Overview
The singer Max Lorenz was Hitler's favourite tenor: married to a Jewess, he was also homosexual. The biography of this outstanding Wagner singer is also closely bound up with the story of Haus Wahnfried in Bayreuth.
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