BERLIN () - Two great-granddaughters of composer Richard Wagner will take control of Germany's Wagner opera festival after winning an epic phratry power struggle.
The Richard Wagner Foundation announced on Monday that Eva Wagner-Pasquier, 63, and her half-sister Katharina Wagner, 30, would exact over the festival in Bayreuth after 89-year-old Wolfgang Wagner stepped down terminal month.
After Wolfgang Wagner's 57-year reign as head of the festival in the Bavarian township ended, a fierce battle for succession erupted, roughness Wagner-Pasquier and Katharina Wagner against their cousin Nike Wagner, 63.
Wagner-Pasquier is Wolfgang Wagner's daughter from his first marriage. German media said the two women had not spoken to each other for geezerhood and had only recently renewed relations in order of magnitude to devise their articulation bid.
Wagner-Pasquier is an experienced theatre handler. Katharina Wagner celebrated her directing debut at the Wagner festival last year and has supported projects such as an out-of-doors public screening of operas.
"We're grateful that the haggling over the festival is finally behindhand us," said Wagner-Pasquier.
"We want to preserve the unmatched emplacement of the festival," aforesaid Katharina Wagner. "Naturally we've been hearing to the criticism and will take it to heart."
Nike Wagner had hoped to run the prestigious event jointly with opera manager Gerard Mortier.�
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