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    Wolfgang Wagner

    Grandson of Richard Wagner and director of the Bayreuth Festival

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  1. Wolfgang Wagner (30 August 1919 – 21 March 2010 [1]) 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.

  2. Mar 23, 2010 · Wolfgang Wagner, an opera director and impresario who for more than half a century ran Bayreuth, the international music festival conceived by his grandfather, Richard Wagner and known most...

  3. Wolfgang Wagner (30 August 1919 - 21 March 2010) devoted his whole life to the Bayreuth Festival and the works of his grandfather Richard Wagner. He was the son of Siegfried Wagner, and was best known as the leader the Bayreuth Festival, first together with his brother Wieland Wagner from 1951 to 1966 and then alone until he retired in 2008 and ...

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  5. Mar 24, 2010 · Wolfgang Wagner was the sole director of the Bayreuth music festival for 42 years. Grandson of the composer Richard Wagner and son of the British-born Hitler fan Winifred Wagner, he assumed...

  6. Mar 22, 2010 · MUNICH (AP) Wolfgang Wagner, the grandson of composer Richard Wagner and the leader of the Bayreuth opera festival for more than half a century, died Sunday. He was 90. His death was announced...

  7. Mar 22, 2010 · Last of a generation: Wolfgang Wagner dies aged 90. The life of Wagner's grandson embraced everything from hospital visits by Hitler to commissioning Patrice Chéreau's epoch-making Ring...

  8. Mar 22, 2010 · Monday, March 22, 2010 10:57am. Local News Nation / world. MUNICH — Wolfgang Wagner, 90, the grandson of composer Richard Wagner and the leader of the Bayreuth opera festival for more than...

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