Charles Ludwig Wagner (1869February 25, 1956) was an American concert impresario and theater producer. He managed John McCormack and

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, and introduced

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. He founded the Charles L. Wagner Opera Company.

Biography

He was born in 1869. In the 1920s, he worked as a

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theatre producer in New York City. Wagner authored an autobiography detailing his experiences as a manager of speakers and performing artists, ''Seeing Stars'' (1940), published by

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, New York. He died at age 87 of a short illness on February 25, 1956, at

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(now Mount Sinai West) in New York City.

References

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