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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wieland_WagnerWieland Wagner - Wikipedia

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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.

   • Nationality: German
   • Known for: Member of Wagner family and Opera director

   • Children: Iris, Wolf-Siegfried, Nike and Daphne
   • Occupation: Opera director

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3. www.dw.com › en › how-wieland-wagner-once-hitlersHow Wieland Wagner lifted the Nazi shadow from Bayreuth

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   Jul 27, 2017 · Wieland Wagner was born on January 5, 1917, the child of Richard Wagner's son Siegfried and Siegfried's wife Winifred née Williams. Considered the heir to the family-run festival in Bayreuth from ...

4. www.dw.com › en › nike-wagner-opens-up-on-herNike Wagner on her father's Nazi ties and life as a Wagner

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   Jul 27, 2017 · 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 Wagner reflects on life as ...

5. www.wagneroperas.com › indexwielandwagnerWagner Operas -- Productions -- Wieland Wagner, New Bayreuth

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   This production was conducted by Karl Böhm. Wieland Wagner. (1917 - 1966) Wieland Wagner was artistic director at the Bayreuth festival from 1951 to his untimely death from lung cancer in October of 1966. His last hours he spent discussing, as best he could, plans for a new production of Tannhäuser. Go back to Productions.

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6. www.wagneropera.net › biographies › wieland-wagnerWieland Wagner | Wagneropera.net

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   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. The production left them with no visual reminders of the pieces they thought they knew: they were confronted with emptiness and darkness, with just a few ...

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   Who was Wieland Wagner?

   • 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.

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   What is a Wieland Wagner portrait?

   • A Wieland Wagner Portrait. This is a documentary which includes interviews and rehearsal footage of the director, as well as conductors and singers that worked at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus during the Wieland Wagner years. The film is in German with no subtitles, and it is narrated by Theo Adam.

   Wagner Operas -- Productions -- Wieland Wagner, New Bayreuth

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   How did Wieland Wagner die?

   • In 1965, he was awarded the Pour le Mérite . He died of lung cancer in October 1966. Wieland Wagner is credited as an initiator of Regietheater through ushering in a new modern style to Wagnerian opera as a stage director and designer, substituting a symbolic for a naturalist staging and focusing on the psychology of the drama.

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   Did Wieland Wagner have a connection to Hitler?

   • Wieland Wagner's connection to Hitler He also bore a burden, from his youth. A horrendous burden! From the day he was born, they called him the inheritor of the Bayreuth Festival. Actually, his artistic views were initially quite traditionalistic. His early stage productions were nearly naturalistic, with just a few symbolic elements added.

   Nike Wagner on her father's Nazi ties and life as a Wagner

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8. www.nytimes.com › 2015/08/16 › artsBayreuth Festival, the House That Wagner Built, Stays on ...

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   Aug 12, 2015 · After World War II, Wieland Wagner (Nike’s father) and his younger brother Wolfgang (Eva’s and Katharina’s father), took control of the festival from their mother, Winifred. Wieland was ...

9. academic.oup.com › book › 10615Wieland Wagner: The Appia Heritage and the Gesamtkunstwerk

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   Wieland Wagner was caught in a generational maelstrom: on the one hand, as a member of the Hitler Youth and partaker of the politicized transformation of his grandfather’s works on the stage of Bayreuth; on the other, as the anointed successor to the Bayreuth heritage, dispensed from military service through the special intervention of the ...