Klaus Florian Vogt, who replaced Marco Jentzsch as Lohengrin at the last minute, has sung the role everywhere from New York's Metropolitan Opera to Bayreuth's Festspielhaus.

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But this year, the cities of Leipzig, where Wagner was born, and Bayreuth, where he built his shrine (the Festspielhaus) and was laid to rest (notwithstanding his death in Venice), have joined forces to showcase them as a series.

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