Though I'm personally more of a Verdi fan (the only Wagner opera I ever saw was Der Fliegende Holländer), I followed the ongoing press reports of Schlingensief vs. Wagner&Singers with great curiosity. Especially the ones in Der Spiegel sounded really scary.
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,310638,00.html

After having read so much about the "aged parents" in your previous travel reports, it's good to finally get a glimpse of them. They look a bit different from how I imagined them to be, but very nice, indeed. Please give them my best regards.

Your vanity is perfectly justified ;-)