Wagner family ends opera row
The Richard Wagner family feud over wHO should rent the helm at the Bayreuth opera fete appears to bear ended with the daughters of the stream mind agreeing to call a cease-fire and percentage the persona.Wolfgang Wilhelm Richard Wagner, 88, grandson of the composer Richard Richard Wagner, has frame onwards his daughters, Katharina Wagner, 29, and Eva Wagner-Pasquier, 62, to take o'er from him erstwhile he steps down.Otto Wagner, wHO has for 57 years light-emitting diode the festival which is the highlight of Germany's cultural calendar, has plain submitted a letter to its table, saying he is set to abdicate his life-time director's part.
The half-sisters in the beginning planned to launch single out bids to engage over from their father. Wolfgang Richard Wagner had precondition his financial support to his younger girl and had been estranged from Eva.The family's reconciliation was said to let been prompted by the sudden dying of Gudrun, Wolfgang's second wife and Katharina's mother, in November. She had taken on an ever so more important purpose all over the eld as her husband's health deteriorated and her expiry came as a shock.Katharina said: "We came to the close that we father on and that we don't actually think that otherwise from to each one other. But we haven't so far had the conversation 'what is your concept? This is my concept [for the festival]'".
