The Wagner Family DVD

This brand new DVD from the acclaimed director Tony Palmer tells thecontroversial story of the Wagner family. It was originally broadcast inSeptember 2009 on ITV1 as one of the final programmes of The South BankShow and is now being made available in an extended version.This is a film about a family, a family which has ruled the theatre in Bayreuth in southernGermany for the last 140 years, some say still the greatest threatre in the world. There'sno doubt that Richard Wagner who built it was the most influential composer in the whole of the 19th Century. But his family... has survived a mixture of lies, deception, fraud and dangerous political alliances. The story of this family is a soap opera that makesCoronation Street look like Noddy-in-Toyland. It’s a family – in many ways the Royal familyof Germany – at war with itself. [show more]

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