Wagner family ends opera row
The Wilhelm Richard Wagner family feud over wHO should engage the helm at the Bayreuth opera fete appears to make ended with the daughters of the current head agreeing to call a armistice and share the persona.Wolfgang Wagner, 88, grandson of the composer Richard Wagner, has put forward his daughters, Katharina Wagner, 29, and Eva Wagner-Pasquier, 62, to take over from him once he steps down.Wilhelm Richard Wagner, wHO has for 57 years light-emitting diode the festival which is the highlight of Germany's cultural calendar, has evidently submitted a letter to its table, locution he is set to quit his life-time director's theatrical role.
The half-sisters originally planned to launch separate bids to take over from their begetter. Wolfgang Wilhelm Richard Wagner had given his backing to his younger daughter and had been estranged from Eva.The family's reconciliation was said to have been prompted by the sudden destruction of Gudrun, Wolfgang's irregular wife and Katharina's mother, in Nov. She had taken on an ever to a greater extent important role over the geezerhood as her husband's wellness deteriorated and her death came as a shock.Katharina said: "We came to the finish that we get on and that we don't in reality think that differently from apiece other. Simply we haven't yet had the conversation 'what is your construct? This is my construct [for the festival]'".
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