Just in: Munich renews top team

After months of politically stirred speculation, the Bavarian government this morning awarded new contracts to Serge Dorny and Vladimir Jurowski as intendant and GMD of Bavarian State Opera.

Dorny, 62, gets five more years, Jurowski, 52, gets three.

Picture from this morning’s press conference.

UPDATE Jurowski said later: The Bavarian State Orchestra is not only one of the oldest, but undoubtedly one of the best in the world. I am delighted to be able to continue working with this unique collective in the orchestra pit and on the concert stage in the coming years. It is still important to preserve tradition, to make the present a topic of conversation and thus to set the course for an artistically vibrant future for the orchestra. But I am also delighted, as General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera, one of the most successful opera houses in the world, to continue to work closely with the house’s other musical collectives, the choir, the soloist ensemble, the musical department, the director and all other professions. Together, as in previous years, we will bring extraordinary and remarkable productions to the stage in the National Theater and all other venues of the Bavarian State Opera.