Wolfgang Wagner Wolfgang Wagner Wolfgang Wagner (30 August 191921 March 2010) 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 retired in 2008, although many of the productions which he commissioned were severely criticized in their day. He had been plagued by family conflicts and criticism for many years. He was the son of Siegfried Wagner, the grandson of Richard Wagner, and the great-grandson of Franz Liszt. His
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