A Wagner flag in front of the Festspielh

A Wagner flag in front of the Festspielhaus is on half mast on March 23, 2010 in Bayreuth, southern Germany after Wolfgang Wagner, the grandson of composer Richard Wagner died on March 21 at the age of 90. Wolfgang, also the great-grandson of Franz Liszt, presided with an iron fist over the Wagner feast that is Bayreuth for an incredible 57 years, working to exorcise the family's and the festival's Nazi ghosts and attract the world's best singers and conductors to the famed Green Hill. AFP PHOTO DDP / TIMM SCHAMBERGER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read TIMM SCHAMBERGER/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)