Wartburg

A man dressed in the dark green uniform of a 1950s traffic cop, replete with an old-fashioned leather cap, blew his whistle sharply and waved the car — a well-maintained 1980 Wartburg, a classic despite the engine’s clatter — through to the parking lot.

During an interview in New York before heading to Germany, Stutzmann said “Tannhäuser” was the perfect vehicle for her Bayreuth debut, given her quarter-century as a contralto and the opera’s full title, which translates to “Tannhäuser and the Minstrels’ Contest at Wartburg.”

He wrestled while at Wartburg College, served in the U.S.

Alicia is touchy about coming from Wartburg, Tenn., which is about an hour outside Knoxville.

“Regardless of the intents of the people involved or whether it was justified or not, just the optics alone are terrible: You’ve got this White bishop from a predominantly White denomination that ruined this Latiné celebration of faith that was deeply cherished in their cultural tradition,” said Kulkarni, a recent graduate of Wartburg Theological Seminary.