Katherina Wagner's Die Meistersinger at Bayreuth

Loney discusses Katharina Wagner's directorial debut at the Bayreuth festival, staging her great-grandfather's Die Meistersinger--which has made the questioners even more insistent, as some don't believe her avant-garde staging approach qualifies her for the post of Intendant. Katharina--in one of the many interviews--points out that the talents required for an Artistic Director are not the same as those needed for a Regisseur. Whether one is an effective stage director or not, she insists, has no real bearing on the arts management skills needed by an Intendant.