Eva Wagner

Country

Germany


Co-Director of the Bayreuth Festival



Biography


Opera manager; great granddaughter of Richard Wagner. Since 2008, together with her half-sister Katharina, she has been in charge of the Bayreuth Festival. From 1984 to 1987 she was an opera director at the Royal Opera House in London and from 1989 to 1993 she was Director of Programming at the Opéra Bastille. She has worked with a number of major theatres in Europe and America, has been a Senior Artistic Consultant to the Metropolitan Opera, and was an Artistic Advisor for the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.