Now Lebedev owns the Toscanini Suite

Now Lebedev owns the Toscanini Suite

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norman lebrecht

May 26, 2014

The ex-KGB oligarchs, owners of London’s throwaway Evening Standard and once-Independent newspapers, have bought the lakeside Hotel Gütsch from which Arturo Toscanini founded the anti-Fascist Lucerne Festival in 1938.

You can sleep in the Toscanini suite for SFr 1,260 ($1,400) a night.

Sic transit…

hotel gutsch

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