There again hibernation on Lake Constance. Bregenz in the dispute over the renewal of the contract of David Pountney has been completed with a compromise. By 2014, one year longer than planned, Pountney is now director of the festival, which he then passed ten years. He will by then also responsible for another production on the floating stage as a director (the Americas Musical Show Boat ). The site director was announced last autumn, new, first it was only pro forma. Earlier this year, rumored then that not a new application of Pountney would be desirable. The reported yet in interest, which degenerated to the public discharged slugfest with festival-President Günter Rhomberg . Meanwhile, both sides put emphasis on directing the follow-on track. There is concern, however, that in the course of the previous process, some of the candidates, Bernd Loebe , Ulf Schirmer , Philippe Arlaud and Georges Delnon were cheated. The successor Pountney is to be given back in the next few weeks known. The Bregenz Festival 2011 on 20 July with the new production of the opera André Chénier Umberto Giordano of , directed by Keith Warner opened.
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