GETTING a seat at the annual Bayreuth Festival of Richard Wagner's operas is about as easy as shaking off a dwarf's curse: the average waiting time is nine years.

想在一年一度的拜罗伊特·瓦格纳音乐节中得到门票可不是件容易事，等待的时间和消除矮人身上的诅咒所需日子一样长：九年。

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Today, a festival of Wagner's operas is held in Bayreuth every year.

现在，在贝鲁斯，每年都举行瓦格纳歌剧的演出。

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The Bayreuth Festival has a new "Ring des Nibelungen" lined up for July.

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The identity of the company that supplied Wagner tubas for the first "Ring" cycle at the Bayreuth Festival a year later is uncertain.

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During his career, Sawallisch also conducted at the Bayreuth Festival, La Scala in Milan and with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic and Tokyo's NHK Orchestra.

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