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
Charlie Jazz Festival Charlie Jazz Festival The Charlie Jazz Festival is an annual music festival held every summer in Vitrolles, Provence, France. It was established in 1998 by "Charlie Free", a not-for-profit jazz organization which runs jazz sessions every two weeks at "Le Moulin à Jazz", a famous jazz club in France. The festival is hosted at "Le Domaine de Fontblanche", a public garden with hundred-year-old plane trees, the first weekend of July. The two stages in the park feature concerts by international artists, but a large part of the program aims to discover talented young players from Europe and France. Since its