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Wolfgang Wagner, 90-year-old grandson of composer Richard Wagner, has died. He leaves an uneasy legacy. His 57 years as director of the Bayreuth opera festival were distinguished by hostile relations with his extended family. He rejected professional association with all younger generations of the Wagner family. Although his direction for stage never received the acclaim of his brother Wieland's, the waiting lists for the festival were even larger than Glyndebourne's at its peak of attendance. The notorious curmudgeon's staunch supporters will be saddened by his passing...
Tim Burton will continue his recent rehash campaign with a new version of The Addams Family. But your black, spray-fixed bouffant needn't droop in disappointment at yet another remake from the man who once bought us Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. His proposed version is at least fairly imaginative - a 3D stop-motion animation which disregards the 90s live action films and draws inspiration from the original Charles Addams comic strips published in The New Yorker between 1938 and 1988...
He might be a Karma Chameleon but its likely Boy George will be experiencing a reincarnation next year - reforming Culture Club to celebrate their 30th anniversary. The group did complete a US tour twelve years ago, so it hasn't all been house music, messy autobiographies and prison sentences for the alternately fallen / reformed George. He told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire that the group would have to reuinite for the right reasons, and it sounds like the upcoming anniversary is good as any...
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