Serge Dorny’s next job?

Munich whispers put the director of Opéra de Lyon in pole position to take over as intendant of the Bavarian State Opera in 2021, together with the conductor Vladimir Jurowski. The pair have previously worked together at the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dorny is not Munich’s first choice. He was fired from Dresden before he even started work and his tenure at Lyon has been destabilised by an expenses scandal.

But Munich has been firmly turned down by Berlin Komische’s Barry Kosky and Covent Garden’s Antonio Pappano and time is running out to name a successor to the brilliant Nikolaus Bachler-Kirill Petrenko team.

A tainted Belgian administrator with a Berlin-based conductor is starting to look like the least-worst option.