MOSCOW - In the latest skirmish between the Russian Orthodox Church and the cultural elite, the culture minister on March 29 fired the director of a Siberian theater who included a controversial interpretation of the life of Jesus in the Richard Wagner opera "Tannhauser."
New York Times: Russian theater director fired for offending Christians
Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater's director was suspected of having offended the sentiments of religious believers by his staging of Wagner's \u201cTannhauser.\u201d
