Katharina Wagner

Whether you love it or hate it, there's never a dull moment in Katharina Wagner's uproarious staging of her great-grandfather's "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg", revived here Sunday for its third year. Judging by the storm of boos that greeted the blonde 31-year-old when she took her bows at the end of the six-and-a-half-hour evening, most of the audience in Bayreuth's legendary Festspielhaus theatre loathed it. Katharina, who has taken over the joint running of the prestigious month-long summer music festival along with her much older half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier, 64, certainly has plenty of ideas about Richard Wagner's only "comic" opera. The Mastersingers are not ... Read Full Story

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