Katharina Wagner on view. Wagner also took a bow after every performance, with audiences split between bravas and boos. On 1 September 2008, Katharina Wagner was named together with her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier as the new director of the Bayreuth Festival by the Richard Wagner Foundation, succeeding their father Wolfgang. This followed an extended family dispute. They were chosen in preference to their cousin Nike Wagner and the Belgian opera director and administrator Gerard Mortier, who had placed a late joint bid for the directorship on 24 August. In October 2010, Wagner planned to visit Israel in order to invite the Israel
Roskilde Festival 2007 Roskilde Festival 2007 Roskilde Festival 2007 was held 5 –8 July 2007 with warm-up and camping from 1 July. The stages "Metropol" and "Ballroom" were replaced by two new stages, "Astoria" and "Cosmopol". On 4 June 2007 the festival's website announced that the festival was sold out. 2007 was the wettest year in the history of the festival with almost of rain falling, which meant that large lakes formed in the camping and festival areas. This is also more than double the amount of rain that fell during the festival in 1997, the year which was previously the worst in