Family turmoil at the Wagner festival

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Wolfgang Wagner is the grandson of the composer Wolfgang Wagner. Now the younger leads the annual Wagner Festival but he’s now an old man and wants to retire. Who will take over? For years, his granddaughters have fought to take over the festival�Eva, who’s 63 and a professional theatre manager, and then also Catalina, her stepdaughter, who’s 29. but they’re about to propose how they could run the festival together, which their father would accept. But the third great-granddaughter, Wolfgang’s niece, also wants to take over and she says she already has a deal to run the festival.

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