A freezing Finn captures major festival
NewsThe Bregenz Festival, in Austria, has announced its next director.
She is Lilli Paasikivi, presently artistic director of Finnish National Opera.
A mezzo-soprano, she has never held a job outside Finland.
Paasikivi, 57, is on the books of the London agency HarrisonParrott, a warehouse for Finnish talent.
Bregenz is famed for its stage on the lake. Lilli Paasikivi is famed for her winter swims (see publicity photograph).
If Finns keep rising at the present rate, slipped disc will soon have to be retitled luistanut levy.
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