Katharina Wagner Canceled an Antisemitism Speaker. Now She Regrets It.

The hereditary ruler of the Bayreuth Festival has reversed course on a speaker she removed from the festival's programming, which means she has publicly admitted she was wrong, which is not a thing the Wagners do lightly. The context makes this more complicated, not less: Bayreuth's relationship with its own antisemitic history is one of the most unresolved questions in all of classical music.