Bayreuth for kiddies

This is delightful, but a bit bizarre. The Wagner Festspielhaus in Bayreuth is putting on A CHILDREN’S VERSION OF TANNHÄUSER. Better than a children’s Tristan und Isolde, I guess.

Some changes to the original were necessary, of course:

“The story of ‘Tannhäuser’ was adapted to make it more age-appropriate. As written, when Wagner’s opera opens, we see the minnesinger Tannhäuser enjoying round-the-clock Bacchanalian orgies in Venus’s enchanted realm… In this production for children, however…”

Let’s try a Being and Time for children. Any publishers out there interested in it?