23 Dec 2008

Berlin Mayor Taps Salzburg Bigwig to Run Barenboim’s Sad House

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=au_qkEzFIhNk&refer=muse

By Shirley Apthorp [Bloomberg.com, 24 December 2008]

Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) — Just in time to blight Christmas for Berlin’s music lovers, Mayor Klaus Wowereit called a press conference to announce the appointment of a new man for the top job at the hallowed Staatsoper Unter den Linden.