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Bayreuth Festival Names New Leaders
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The Washington Post
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September 2, 2008
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Two half sisters, daughters of the same father by different
mothers, who have hardly ever met, are joined in an unexpected twist
of fate: It's a familiar plot line at the Wagner opera festival at
Bayreuth, Germany. On stage, it applies to Wotan's daughters
Sieglinde, the mother of Siegfried, and Brunnhilde, his lover, in
the "Ring" tetralogy. Offstage, it applies to the two daughters of
Wolfgang Wagner, the composer's octogenarian grandson.
Yesterday the Bayreuth Festival Board announced that Eva Wagner-
Pasquier, 63, and Katharina Wagner, 30, who before this year had
little contact with each other, had been approved as successors to
their father. Wolfgang, after running this ...
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