Wolfgang Wagner, German director and manager (born 1919)

Wolfgang Wagner

20th and 21st-century German director of the Bayreuth Theatre

Wolfgang Wagner was a German opera director. He is best known as the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's death in 1966. From then on, he assumed total control until he…