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The Wagners: The Dramas of a Musical Dynasty. (Musical Men).
The Wagners: The Dramas of a Musical Dynasty. By Nike Wagner. Translated by Ewald Osers and Michael Downes. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. [xix, 327 p. ISBN 0-691-08811-X. $29.95.]
Nike Wagner, one of Richard Wagner's thirteen great-grandchildren, confirmed her entry in the race to succeed her uncle Wolfgang as director of the Bayreuth Festival by publishing the German edition of this book in 1998 (Wagner Theatre [Frankfurt: Insel, 1998]). For the American edition, she has brought the story of her family up to the year 2000.
Before offering her version of the Wagner family saga, the author offers 128 pages devoted to interpretations ...
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