Wagner festival director to step down
(AP)
<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080429/capt.754b6be272334a65bb0ff516707697fc.addition_germany_bayreuth_festival_fra128.jpg?x=70&y=130&q=85&sig=DPCzJ8.AGHuklOjcTbMzKQ--" align="left" height="130" width="70" alt="FILE ** In this July 25, 2007 file photo, Wolfgang Wagner, grandson of German composer Richard Wagner, right, and his daughter Katharina, left, stand prior to the Wagner Festival opening in front of the Festspielhaus building in Bayreuth, Germany. Wagner, the longtime director of the annual festival of Richard Wagner's operas, will step down after 57 years leading the event, Bavarian Culture Minister Thomas Goppel said Tuesday, April 29, 2008. He has suggested that his daughters, Eva Wagner-Pasquier and her half-sister Katharina Wagner, replace him. (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz, file)" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_en_ot/music_bayreuth_festival)AP - Wolfgang Wagner is stepping down after 57 years as director of the Bayreuth opera festival founded by his grandfather, the composer Richard Wagner, Bavaria's culture minister said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
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