Katharina looks like being the last Wagner to run Bayreuth
NewsFollowing on from critical comments last year by the federal German culture secretary Monika Grütters, the state of Bavaria is busily looking at restructuring the Bayreuth Festival with a view to safeguarding ‘the interests of the public sector’.
This modest statement has panicked remote members of the Wagner family into issuing statements that ‘the family cannot be divided out’ and the festival must be conserved solely for Wagner performance.
The present boss, Katharina Wagner, is single and heirless. There is no designated successor.
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