Conductor quits Berlin ‘for family reasons’
OrchestrasThe Scottish condductor Sir Donald Runnicles is leaving his post at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper a year early, it was announced this weekend.
Runnicles, 68, says he will stay until 2026 to see in new intendant Aviel Cahn, but then wants to centre his activity on the US, where he is music director of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming.
He has led the Deutsche Oper since 2009.
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