His wife Cosima began running the festival by 1908 ... The exhibition "Mensch Wagner" can be seen through October 6 at the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth. The Bayreuth Festival runs from ...

Although the marriage produced two children, it was largely a loveless union, and in 1863 Cosima began a relationship with Wagner, who was 24 years her senior. She married him in 1870. In that ...