BREAKING NEWS Just Do It: Gerard Mortier Plan To Take Over Bayreuth
Gerard Mortier, sneaky little man, adds a new surprising chapter in The Denazification of Bayreuth soap opera:
Belgian opera impresario Gerard Mortier is teaming up with Nike Wagner, great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, in a bid to run the legendary Bayreuth Festival, a report said Monday.Quoting Nike Wagner, 63, the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said the two had faxed a joint letter of application to the festival's ruling body, the Stiftungsrat. It meets on September 1 to nominate a successor to 88-year-old Wolfgang Wagner, who has headed Bayreuth for the past 57 years.
