Eva Wagner-Pasquier and Katharina Wagner Take over the Management of Bayreuth Festival
With an overwhelming result of 22:0 votes, the Board of Trustees (24 votes) of the Richard Wagner Foundation decided today:
Eva Wagner-Pasquier and Katharina Wagner will lead Bayreuth Festival in the coming years. The declared goal of Wolfgang Wagner’s two daughters, who resigned from their post yesterday, is above all to make the festival once again the world’s leading theater for Wagner interpretation. Conductor Christian Thielemann will assist them as artistic advisor in all musical matters.
The staff of Bayreuth Festival are delighted with the outcome of the election and extend their warmest congratulations to Eva Wagner-Pasquier and Katharina Wagner!