BERLIN (AP) — A modern version of Richard Wagner’s “Tannhauser” has been canceled in Germany after the opening-night audience complained about new scenes showing Jews being executed and dying in the gas chambers.

A spokeswoman for Duesseldorf’s opera house said there would only be concert performances without theatrical staging.

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