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Singer quits Wagner festival over Nazi tattoos
BERLIN (Reuters) – A Russian opera singer has pulled out of
the Bayreuth opera festival over Nazi tattoos on his chest days
before the start of the celebration of Richard Wagner’s works
that was once popular with Third Reich leaders. Evgeny Nikitin
was meant to play the Flying Dutchman in Wagner’s opera of the
same name but German newspaper and TV images have shown him
bare chested with tattoos that resemble symbols used by the
Nazis.
