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Wagner (Wagner, Siegfried - Composer): Wolfgang Wagner
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Wolfgang Wagner has long had another candidate for his successor. She is his talented daughter by his second marriage—to Gudrun Mack—Katharina Wagner. It would appear that he has refused to retire—not only because he really relishes running the Festival—but ... because he was waiting for her to mature as a Wagner stage-director, a Wagner worthy of her great-grandfather’s Masterworks.
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In Bayreuth, the 83-year-old Wolfgang Wagner demonstrated that there was life in the old dog yet by appointing controversial director Christoph Marthaler for the festival’s next Tristan. There was more amusement when Wagner reneged on a promise that Pierre Boulez could have his choice of director—the equally controversial Austrian Martin Kusej—for the 2004 Parsifal. The old man put the cherry on the cake by naming as director of the next Ring Lars von Trier, a provocateur who claims he has never seen an opera.
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After all, both Wieland & Wolfgang Wagner took entirely New Looks at their grandfather’s operas, from the resumption of the Bayreuth Festival in 1951 onward. And they were both severely—occasionally satirically—criticized for their innovations. "New Bayreuth" soon became a Watchword for modernizing boring old traditional ideas of opera-staging. But not for being untrue to the essences of the operas…
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Under the terms of the agreement, Wolfgang Wagner retained directorship of the Festspiele. Apparently, the Foundation charter, perhaps not surprisingly... requires that qualified family members receive preference. Under the terms of the Foundation, however, Wolfgang Wagner only has one out of 24 votes; the others are held by German, Bavarian and Upper Fran conian officials and Friends of the Bayreuth Festival (2 votes).
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