Wieland Wagner

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Wieland Wagner (January 5, 1917 – October 17, 1966) was one of two sons of Siegfried Wagner and grandson of composer Richard Wagner. He is credited with ushering in a new modern style to Wagnerian opera as director of the Bayreuth Festival - moving from a naturalist to a symbolic staging. The successive stagings in the 1950s were matched by an extremely strong succession of conductors including Knappertsbusch, Keilberth and Krauss. Many of these recordings are available on CD. In 1965, he was awarded the Pour le Mérite. He died of lung cancer in October 1966.


[edit] Videography

  • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Nilsson, Windgassen, Hotter; Boulez, 1967) [live] Bayreuth Festival at Osaka
  • Wagner: Die Walküre (Silja, Dernesch, Thomas, Adam; Schippers, 1967) [live] Bayreuth Festival at Osaka


[edit] Bibliography

  • Wieland Wagner: The Positive Sceptic, by Geoffrey Skelton, St Martin's Press, 1971.
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