Word: wieland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revive Bayreuth, Wagner's grandsons Wolfgang, 32, and Wieland, 34, collected about $400,000 from the Bavarian government, radio networks and festival devotees. They cleaned up the Festspielhaus, hired musicians, replaced costumes and sets destroyed by playfully masquerading American G.I.s quartered in the building at the end of the war. The Wagners also designed some imaginative props. Example: Fafner, the dragon in Siegfried, is a 30-foot, steam-snorting monster with bloody ten-foot jaws, and teeth a foot long. Mused Wolfgang: "Grandfather, in the sky, probably would not like what we are doing. But on second thought...
Bayreuth, operatic shrine erected by Richard Wagner to himself, is getting ready for its first wide-open festival since 1939-and this time under the direction of grandsons Wieland Wagner, 33, and Wolfgang Wagner, 31, both sharp-nosed images of Grossvater. Last week they had workmen hammering & sawing away on the vast stage of the red brick festival house. By July, brand-new sets will be ready for six operas: Parsifal, Die Meistersinger and the Ring...
Bayreuth's case: some of Wagner's Third Reich worshipers (most notable: Adolf Hitler) "made him a Nazi-he was not." The prewar boss of the festival, Wagner's daughter-in-law Winifred, mother of Wieland and Wolfgang, once an ardent Nazi, has retired from all connection with festival affairs in illustration of the point. Moreover, the new Bayreuth is stressing the fact that Wagner admired the U.S. He wrote a grand march for Philadelphia's celebration of the looth anniversary of independence (he was paid $5,000 for it*), planned to visit the U.S. before...