It's Official

The Stiftungsrat (board) of the executive governing agency of the Bayreuther Festspiele, the Richard Wagner Stiftung Bayreuth, has, by a margin of 22 of the Stiftungsrat's 24 votes (the vote was 22-0 with two abstentions), chosen half-sisters Katharina Wagner and Eva Wagner-Pasquier to be the Festspiele's new co-directors to succeed their father and longtime Festspiele director, Wolfgang Wagner.

The Bayreuth Festival board on Monday named half-sisters Katharina Wagner and Eva Wagner-Pasquier to replace their father at the helm of the German festival dedicated to the music of composer Richard Wagner.

The women — the composer's great-great [sic] granddaughters — will replace their father, Wolfgang Wagner, who stepped down at the end of August after 57 years as director of the festival.

Surprise!

RTWT here, and more here, here, and here.