Katharina Wagner Chamber Orchestra to play a concert in July 2011 at the Bayreuth town hall, to end a post-1945 boycott of Wagner's music in Israel. Her visit was canceled after hostility from Holocaust survivors. Der fliegende Holländer (Würzburg) Lohengrin (Budapest) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bayreuth) Rienzi (Bremen) Tristan und Isolde (Bayreuth) Katharina Wagner Katharina Wagner (born 21 May 1978 in Bayreuth) is a German opera stage-director and co-director of the Bayreuth Festival. She is the daughter of Wolfgang Wagner, great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, and great-great granddaughter of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Wagner has staged "Der fliegende Holländer" in Würzburg and "Lohengrin"
Wagner Group news site "The Insider" in early December 2017, veteran Russian officer Igor Strelkov confirmed that Wagner PMCs had returned to Luhansk from Syria. Strelkov had a key role in the annexation of Crimea by Russia, as well as in the early stages of the war in the east of Ukraine where he was one of the most senior commanders. He was pulled out of eastern Ukraine in August 2014, reportedly because the Russian authorities felt he was too much of a liability, after which he started opposing the Kremlin. In mid-May 2018, the SBU reported that about 100 Wagner PMCs