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Wolfgang Wagner (30 August 1919 – 21 March 2010) was a German opera director. He is best known as the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival , a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's death in 1966.
Mar 23, 2010 · Mr. Wagner was an opera director and impresario who for more than half a century ran Bayreuth, the international music festival conceived by his grandfather, Richard Wagner.
Wolfgang Wagner studied Political Science, German Literature and Philosophy in Tübingen (Germany) and Yellow Springs, Ohio (USA). He holds a PhD from the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and taught at the universities of Tübingen, Frankfurt, Konstanz, Darmstadt and Mannheim.
Wolfgang Wagner is the grandson of Richard Wagner. Discharge from the German military service, working for the first time at the Bayreuth Festival as a trainee. Since October assistant director and assistant stage manager at the Preussische Staatsoper in Berlin.
Mar 22, 2010 · Wolfgang Wagner, Richard Wagner’s grandson, died on Sunday in Bayreuth, at the age of ninety. Take a moment to register that astonishing fact: the grandchild of a man born in 1813 survived well...
Mar 24, 2010 · Grandson of the composer Richard Wagner and son of the British-born Hitler fan Winifred Wagner, he assumed sole control of the festival in 1966 and continued the process begun by his brother ...
Wolfgang Wagner (born 30 August 1919 - 21 March 2010) was a German opera director. [1] He was the grandson of the opera composer Richard Wagner and great-grandson of the composer Franz Liszt. [1]
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Jul 25, 2019 · On August 31, 2008, the day after his 89th birthday, Wolfgang Wagner stepped down as director of the Bayreuth Festival. Of the preceding 99 seasons since the festival had been founded in 1876,...
Wolfgang Wagner, son of Siegfried Wagner, grandson of Richard Wagner and great grandson of Franz Liszt, was born at Bayreuth in Germany on 30 August 1919. He studied trumpet and French horn. Siegfried Wagner had married an English woman - Winifred Williams-Klindworth, so Wolfgang was half English.
