Flimm Named Salzburg Festival Director
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German theatre director Juergen Flimm was appointed on Monday as the new artistic director of the Salzburg Festival as of 2006, the festival committee said.
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German playwright Tankred Dorst, chosen to direct the Ring cycle at the 2006 Richard Wagner Opera Festival, plans to make the story larger than life in what will be his first foray ever into the opera genre.
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The President of Austria, Heinz Fischer, and the Austrian Defence Minister, Guenther Platter, today have met with the BiH Council of Ministers Chair, Adnan Terzic, who briefed them on the efforts the Council is ...
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David Robertson is to lead the Lucerne Festivalâs orchestra in two of its three concerts at the hall next month instead of an ailing Claudio Abbado.
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Peter Gelb, the president of the Sony Classical recording label, was chosen Friday to succeed Joseph Volpe as the Metropolitan Opera's general manager.
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Austrian federal President Heinz Fischer said Tuesday his country is very interested in enhancing bilateral relations with Syria in the cultural, political and economic fields, describing bilateral relations as ...
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Roman Catholic Church leaders in Austria formally installed a new bishop Sunday in a diocese rocked by the discovery of a vast cache of child pornography on computers at a seminary.
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Italy on Thursday named a new foreign minister, Gianfranco Fini, who once called Mussolini &quot;the greatest statesman of the century&quot; but who in recent years has worked to redefine
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New York's Metropolitan Opera said on  Friday it appointed a senior executive of Sony Music as general  manager, one of the most powerful jobs in the arts and one that  had been tipped for renowned tenor Placido Domingo.
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Israeli Speaker of Parliament Reuven Rivlin will pay a visit to Vienna on Tuesday for talks with his counterpart Andreas Khol and President Heinz Fischer, the Austrian parliamentary press service said on ...
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The executive director of the Seattle Symphony has been named president and chief executive officer of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the BSO announced Tuesday.
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The Canadian singer Feist has won the Seventh Annual Shortlist Music Prize for her album âThe Reminderâ (Cherry Tree/ Interscope). The prize was established in 2001 to honor innovative and underground performers who had not yet achieved mainstream commercial success. ... Claudia Bonn, executive director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center since 2003, is leaving after 15 years with the organization to become executive director of Wave Hill, the 28-acre public garden and cultural center in Riverdale, the Bronx. She will succeed Kate French, who announced in June she would leave in the spring.
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Edo de Waart has been appointed the next music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra as the unanimous choice of a 10-member search committee composed of an equal number of musicians and board members.
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Jan Norman has been appointed new Chief Financial Officer and member of Group Management at Framfab AB, where he will succeed Christian Luiga.
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When the Kirov Opera ends its residency at the Lincoln Center Festival tonight, Valery Gergiev will have conducted his company in two overlapping cycles of Wagnerâs âRing des Nibelungenâ over nine days.
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VIENNA -- Pope John Paul II officially named yesterday a prelate who investigated a child pornography scandal at a seminary to replace the bishop who resigned in the case, which rocked Austria's Roman Catholic Church and triggered an exodus of embittered believers.
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More than three decades after captaining the Panthersâ 1973 Fiesta Bowl team, Wannstedt was named the new head football coach at the University of Pittsburgh today by Athletic Director Jeff Long.