deaths
October 17, 1966
Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (born 1917)

Wieland Wagner
Wieland Wagner was a German opera director, and grandson of Richard Wagner. As co-director of the Bayreuth Festival when it re-opened after World War II, he was noted for innovative new stagings of the musical stage works, departing from the naturalistic scenery and lighting of the 19th-century models.