A gay museum celebrates Siegfried Wagner

A gay museum celebrates Siegfried Wagner

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norman lebrecht

February 24, 2017

One of the less discreditable secrets guarded at Bayreuth is that Richard Wagner’s son was, behind the facade of marriage, primarily homosexual.

Now, Berlin’s gay museum has begun research on an exhibition to celebrate his complicated life.

Don’t expect Katharina Wagner to attend.

Details here.

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