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