Death of a great opera director, 86
mainThe Salzburger Nachrichten has informed us of the death of Johannes Schaaf, one of the go-to directors of the second half of the 20th century. A fixture at Salzburg, Munich and Covent Garden, his Mozart productions with Georg Solti were broadly traditional and extremely musical with a few modern quirks.
He opened the new Israel Opera in Tel Aviv with an outstandingly Russian Boris Godunov.
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