Katharina Wagner 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" in Budapest. Her directorial début at the Bayreuth Festival, staging a production of Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" in July 2007, was booed at its premiere, but established a following which returned to watch the production evolve as Wagner made changes in each of the five years it was
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