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Wolfgang Wagner to lecture:
"RICHARD WAGNER'S ORGINAL FESTIVAL CONCEPT AND THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL
TODAY"
Wolfgang Wagner, Director of the Bayreuth Festival (Germany), the
oldest music festival in the world, and grandson of composer Richard
Wagner, will be the featured speaker at a forum presented by the
Wagner Society of Washington, D.C. on Sunday, February 28, 1999 from
11:00 a.m to 12:30 p.m. in the North Atrium Foyer of the Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Wolfgang Wagner will lecture on "Richard Wagner's Original Festival
Concept and the Bayreuth Festival Today." The lecture is free and
open to the public.
This marks the first ever Washington appearance of Wolfgang Wagner,
a major figure in the cultural world since he and his brother Wieland
re-opened the Bayreuth Festival in Germany in 1951. Upon Wieland's
death in 1966, Wolfgang became general director and has continued to
direct and produce many of the Wagner operas offered in Bayreuth each
summer. He is recognized throughout the world for his innovative
productions, and is credited with the resurgence of interest in
Wagner's works over the past 50 years. He also authored an
autobiography -- "Acts" -- published and translated into English in
1994.
The Kennedy Center is located at 2700 F Street, N.W. Washington,
D.C. For information, call the Society at (301) 907-2600 or visit
the web site at http://www.wagner-dc.org
Janice Rosen
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