Katharina Wagner
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Katharina Wagner (born 21 May, 1978 in Bayreuth) is a German opera stage-director and co-director of the Bayreuth Festival. She is the daughter of Wolfgang Wagner and great granddaughter of Richard Wagner.
She notably staged Der fliegende Holländer in Würzburg and Lohengrin in Budapest.
Her directorial début at the Bayreuth Festival, staging a production of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in July 2007, was booed.[1]
On 1 September 2008 Katharina was named together with her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier as the new director of the Bayreuth Festival by the Richard Wagner Foundation, succeeding their father Wolfgang.[2] This followed an extended family dispute. They were chosen in preference to their cousin Nike Wagner and the Belgian opera director and administrator Gérard Mortier, who had placed a late joint bid for the directorship on 24 August.[3][4]
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[edit] Productions
Der fliegende Holländer (Würzburg)
Lohengrin (Budapest)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bayreuth)
Rienzi (Bremen)
[edit] Further reading
- Carr, Jonathan: The Wagner Clan: The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous Family. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. ISBN 0871139758
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Ms Wagner jeered as great-grandad's opera flops at Bayreuth | World news | The Guardian
- ^ BBC News (2008-09-01). Daughters chosen to run Bayreuth. BBC News. Retrieved on 2008-09-01 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7592659.stm.
- ^ Hickley, Catherine (2008-09-01). "Wagner Sisters Katharina, Eva Named to Lead Bayreuth (Update2)". Bloomberg.com. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=a_Nlu8t5Lw8k. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
- ^ McGroarty, Patrick; Ron Blum (2008-09-01). "Bayreuth names Wagner half-sisters as co-directors". International Herald Tribune. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/01/europe/EU-Germany-Bayreuth-Festival.php. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
