Eva Wagner-Pasquier

She discovered the tenor Peter Hofmann and played a key role in the casting and rehearsals for Patrice Chéreau's Century Ring in 1976.

The joint appointment at Bayreuth followed a long feud in which Wolfgang had favoured his second wife Gudrun and daughter Katharina as successors.

The overseeing committee, the Richard Wagner Foundation of Bayreuth, had favoured Eva, and Wieland's daughter Nike had also put herself forward.

She explained her voluntary resignation to the Nordbayerischer Kurier: "I have asked the shareholders to involve me as a consultant from September 2015."

[9] In 2021, Wagner-Pasquier narrowly survived a drowning incident after having been dragged lifeless from the River Isar.