07 Jan 2009

German conductor Debus named music director of Canadian Opera Company

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[The Canadian Press, 7 January 2009]

TORONTO — Coming to Toronto for the first time this past fall, Germany’s Johannes Debus found himself conducting “War and Peace” for the Canadian Opera Company - a piece he had never done in a language he didn’t speak.