Clouds over Wagner's Green Hill at famed Bayreuth Festival

2014/07/23 04:10:08 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

The curtain goes up on the Bayreuth Festival this week, but observers say the prestigious month-long summer music fest dedicated to the works of Richard Wagner could be losing some of its shine. Detractors say that under its current management -- Wagner & #039;s great-granddaughters Katharina Wagner and Eva Wagner-Pasquier, who took over in 2009 -- the festival is on its way downhill. Fans of the late German composer already joke that the best Wagner singers can be heard anywhere but in Bayreuth. Ever since Wagner & #039;s grandsons Wolfgang and Wieland relaunched the event after World War II, tickets to Bayreuth have been the hardest to come by in the world of opera and classical music.
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