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Wieland Wagner (5 January 1917 – 17 October 1966) was a German opera director, and grandson of Richard Wagner. As co-director of the Bayreuth Festival when it re-opened after World War II, he was noted for innovative new stagings of the operas, departing from the naturalistic scenery and lighting of the originals.
Jul 27, 2017 · Adolf Hitler had personally exempted Wieland Wagner from military service, and through the intervention of Germany's propaganda mininster Joseph Goebbels, Wieland was charged with staging a ...
Jul 27, 2017 · Image: DW/R. Fulker. Wieland Wagner, born 100 years ago as the grandson of composer Richard Wagner, received special attention from Hitler and brought unconventionial ideas to Bayreuth. Nike ...
The new Lohengrin marked the first and only staging at the Met by Wieland Wagner, the composer’s grandson and the director who had transformed production style at the Bayreuth Festival in the 1950s.
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Aug 12, 2015 · For its fans, the absorption of Bayreuth — along with the theater’s unparalleled, ethereal acoustic — makes it worth the trip. Siegfried and the dragon in Wieland Wagner’s 1952 production ...
Wagner Biographies. Wieland Wagner Wieland Wagner as stage director at the Bayreuth Festival "Wieland's production of Parsifal offended the sensibilities of the traditional Wagnerians, to a degree scarcely imaginable today.