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WATCH: Leonard Slatkin Leads the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Children's Choir in “Go Get ‘Em Tigers!”
French Director Patrice Chéreau, Revered for Wagner's 'Ring,' Dead at 68
French opera, theater and film director Patrice Chéreau has died of lung cancer, aged 68. One of the most revered, one might even say iconic directors of his era, Chéreau may have finally been defeated by Napoleon--as in his doomed, but repeated efforts to make a movie about the dictator starring Al Pacino--but that experience clearly never put him off working with outsize characters, as opera remained a passion. Osmo Vänskä’s Emotional Farewell Speech to His Minnesota Orchestra
A recording has emerged of one of the most devastating speeches from a concert hall--Osmo Vänskä's farewell to the Minnesota Orchestra, ravaged by industrial dispute.
