What does Sebastian Schwarz, Glyndebourne’s new General Director, have planned for the opera house – and opera more generally? Rupert Christiansen finds out.
Rumour in the opera world whispers that Glyndebourne bagged a tremendous catch when it signed Sebastian Schwarz as its new general director. “I think Covent Garden is kicking itself that it didn’t get to him first,” an insider friend of mine comments wryly.
Schwarz starts the job this week, taking over from David Pickard, who enjoyed a stable and successful decade here before transferring to the BBC Proms. He hails from Vienna, where he’s been spearheading artistic policy at the Theater an der Wien for as long as Pickard was at Glyndebourne, repeatedly winning critical plaudits and drawing capacity audiences... Keep reading on The Telegraph
Rumour in the opera world whispers that Glyndebourne bagged a tremendous catch when it signed Sebastian Schwarz as its new general director. “I think Covent Garden is kicking itself that it didn’t get to him first,” an insider friend of mine comments wryly.
Schwarz starts the job this week, taking over from David Pickard, who enjoyed a stable and successful decade here before transferring to the BBC Proms. He hails from Vienna, where he’s been spearheading artistic policy at the Theater an der Wien for as long as Pickard was at Glyndebourne, repeatedly winning critical plaudits and drawing capacity audiences... Keep reading on The Telegraph