The Semper Oper in Dresden has announced a new intendant, after music director Christian Thielemann allegedly drove Serge Dorny out of the job.

The new guy is Peter Theiler, 59, a Swiss who runs the state theatre in Nuremburg. He will start in 2018.

The position has been vacant since Ulrike Hessler died, three years ago.

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It’s a happy day for Michel Van der Aa, who is clutching the 2015 Johannes Vermeer Prize, a kind of Dutch Nobel.

Michel, best known for his ENO opera Sunken Garden, has to put the money towards a new work. He is the first musician ever to receive the Vermeer.

Go, Michel!

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photo (c) Marco Borggreve