He has been judge of the Regional Auditions of the Metropolitan Opera and President of the panel of judges for the Richard Wagner Foundation, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires.
In 2008 the Foundation's 24 board members, mostly descendants of composer Richard Wagner, selected Katharina Wagner and her sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier to lead the Bayreuth Festival following the decision of Wolfgang Wagner to stand down.
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On 1 September 2008 Katharina was named together with her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier as the new director of the Bayreuth Festival by the Richard Wagner Foundation, succeeding their father Wolfgang.