After A False Start, Salzburg Festival Chooses Director To Replace Fired Markus Hinterhäuser

Austrian media were reporting that there would be two leaders: stage director Barrie Kosky (artistic) and Dutch National Opera chief Sophie de Lint (administration). Negotiations with that pair collapsed at the last minute, so the Festival board turned to Peter de Caluwe, until last year director of La Monnaie in Brussels. – Moto Perpetuo