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Lagarde: Culture and the economy
It is a pleasure to be here at the Munich Opera Festival. This festival draws on a tradition that stretches back 150 years. And over the next five weeks, audiences will experience a rich variety of performances. The programme includes some of opera’s canonical heavyweights, like Mozart’s Don Giovanni. But it also ventures into rarer territory, with works such as Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae. But one work especially caught my eye: Fauré’s Pénélope, which will be performed at the Bavarian State Opera for the first time at this year’s festival. Now, I can already hear some members of the audience thinking: ... (full story)