Bayreuth's King Lear | Martin Kettle

Wolfgang Wagner's daughters can open a new act in Europe's most remarkable operatic sagaAmong Europe's hereditary rulers in the modern age, only Elizabeth II has managed to retain inherited power so successfully for so long while presenting a benign face to the world as Wolfgang Wagner, whose death at the age of 90 was announced yesterday by the Bayreuth Wagner festival which he ruled for nearly six decades.Like the monarchy, the survival of the Wagner festival into the modern era is a triumph o...

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