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What a shame to illustrate this march, composed by a staunch pacifist as a satire on the military, with cavalry soldiers of the old Wehrmacht, displaying the flag of Imperial Germany - black, white an red - which today serves as identification symbol of German neo-Nazis.

Captain Kallbach was extremely lucky. The nose wheel stopped four feet short of a ditch.

A remarkable opera production by any standars, even more so when considering that Regensburg is a small town of 150.000 in central Bavaria.

@ Hiddecke: You got it all wrong. You mix up the events of the 16th and the 19th century. Sorry.

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Offenbach´s "Orpheus" is generally considered an operetta. At which university did a professor categorise it as an opera?

@QueenBoadicea: A brave attempt to understand this scene. By 1881 most railway lines that exist today had been built (invention: 1815, 65 years before). Should not this opera be fantastique? This stage set is rather down to earth. At Spallanzani´s time no railways existed.To give you an idea wha...