Wolfgang Wagner(R), his wife Gudrun (C) and their daughter Katharina (2nd R), Bavarian premier Edmund Stoiber (L) and his wife Karin arrive for the opening of this year's Bayreuth Wagner opera festival outside the so-called Gruener Huegel (Green Hill) opera house in Bayreuth July 25, 2007. Every year, thousands of Wagner devotees -- some of whom have waited 10 years for a ticket -- flock to the Bavarian town of Bayreuth to revel in the monthlong extravaganza of music by one of the country's greatest composers.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Wolfgang Wagner and his daughter Katharina (L) arrive for the opening of this year's Bayreuth Wagner opera festival outside the so-called Gruener Huegel (Green Hill) opera house in Bayreuth July 25, 2007. A battle between three female descendants of Richard Wagner for the leadership of one of the world's top operatic events has fixated Germans ahead of the opening of this year's Bayreuth festival on Wednesday. Wolfgang Wagner, the 87-year-old grandson of Hitler's favorite composer, has been in charge of the festival since 1951 but critics say standards are slipping and speculation is rife that his daughter Katharina will soon take over. Her appointment would outrage older family rivals and critics say Katharina, a statuesque 29-year-old blonde, is too young to run the festival. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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