The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
A new generation of Wagners is about to take over Europe's most controversial arts legacy
Examiner (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Veteran opera director Wolfgang Wagner welcomed guests to his last Bayreuth festival Friday, walking on the arm of his youngest daughter - a leading contender to replace him after a 57-year reign and a prolonged struggle over his successor.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
BAYREUTH, Germany -- Veteran opera director Wolfgang Wagner welcomed guests to his last Bayreuth festival Friday, walking on the arm of his youngest daughter - a leading contender to replace him after a 57-year reign and a prolonged struggle over his successor.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Veteran opera director Wolfgang Wagner welcomed guests to his last Bayreuth festival Friday, walking on the arm of his youngest daughter - a leading contender to replace him after a 57-year reign and a prolonged struggle over his successor.
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Veteran opera director Wolfgang Wagner welcomed guests to his last Bayreuth festival Friday, walking on the arm of his youngest daughter _ a leading contender to replace him after a 57-year reign and a prolonged struggle over his successor.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
"In 1951, he and his brother, Wieland, were elected to lead the month-long festival their grandfather initially created in 1872 to premiere his epic Ring Cycle. However, he has been the sole director since his brother's death in 1967."...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Veteran opera director Wolfgang Wagner welcomed guests to his last Bayreuth festival Friday, walking on the arm of his youngest daughter - a leading contender to replace him after a 57-year reign and a prolonged struggle over his successor.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Veteran opera director Wolfgang Wagner welcomed guests to his last Bayreuth festival on Friday, walking on the arm of his youngest daughter — a leading contender to replace him after a 57-year reign and a prolonged struggle over his succession.
News & Information (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The Richard Wagner bicentenary is still five years off and the Bayreuth Festival’s 100th edition even further along in 2011, but this year’s events on the fabled Green Hill in Germany will……Read more
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Bayreuth, Germany - The first live, free screening of a Wagner opera on a giant outdoor display in Bayreuth, Germany proved popular, with a gate of 38,000, festival organizers said Monday. The number includes multiple comings and goings during the ev...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Bayreuth, Germany - Grateful praise showered Friday on Wolfgang Wagner as his last Bayreuth opera festival began in Germany, but his niece criticized a plan for his two daughters to take over. For 57 years, Wagner, 88, has run the event, which only p...
Moderato (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
The Bayreuth Festival opened last Friday with the premiere of the Norwegian director Stefan Herheim’s production of Parsifal that also closes proceedings on 28 August. This new staging of Richard Wagner’s final opera – written specially for the Festspielhaus (Festival Theatre) he founded in the small Bavarian town – is the major artistic event in [...]
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Bayreuth warmed up to Norwegian stage director Stefan Herheim and his multimedia staging of "Parsifal," while Katharina Wagner seemed to be consolidating her position as potential festival director.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Germany's world-famous Wagner opera festival is set to open its 2008 season on Friday. Some high-tech changes show that this will be the last festival before a major generational change.
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Who gets to watch? ... A scene from the 2001 Bayreuth production of Wagner's Gotterdammerung. Photograph: EPAEven stranger things than usual afoot at the Bayreuth Festival. The annual Wagner-fest opens on Friday with a new Parsifal, directed by Stefan Herheim (replacing Christoph Schlingensief's controversial performance-art production, which I saw there in 2006). This time, it's not...
