Opera battle hits off-key note

Concerned about a citywide opera festival next year that will honor composer Richard Wagner, whose musical legacy has been tarnished by his anti-Semitic writings, county Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is asking the Los Angeles Opera to broaden the event to feature other musicians. Troy Anderson in the Daily News.

The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on Antonovich's nonbinding motion.

"To specifically honor and glorify the man whose music and racist anti-Semitic writings inspired Hitler and became the de facto soundtrack for the Holocaust in a countywide festival is an affront to those who have suffered or have been impacted by the horrors of Adolf Hitler's National Socialistic Worker Party," Antonovich wrote to LA Opera Chairman Marc Stern.