Wolfgang Wagner Goes To Valhalla

Norman Lebrecht on Wolfgang Wagner's death:

The death of Wolfgang Wagner, announced Sunday night, ends a post-war era at Bayreuth that was almost as unpleasant as the Nazism that preceded it. Wolfgang, with his brother Wieland, conspired in covering up the family's collaboration with Hitler...

...Wolfgang was a petty dictator, modelled on a brutal one. As a stage director he was risible, a regressive shadow of his adventurous brother.

Lebrecht mentions Jonathan Carr's book, always a good source of info on the Wagner clan.