MuseNews Interviews with Cultural, Musical and Theatrical Personalities Pierre Berge, Guy Dumazert, Martin Engstroem, Hugues Gall, Sir Peter Hall, ... Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, Nicholas Payne

MuseNews, the arts newswire, interviewed ten of today’s leading cultural, musical, and theatrical personalities. The interviews are lively and interesting and help to put today’s cultural landscape into intelligent perspective. Everyone with an interest in the visual arts, the performing arts, and high culture in its broad sense will enjoy MuseNews’s conversations with these articulate figures.

The people interviewed include Pierre Berge (cultural philanthropist and founder of Andante.com, the musical Web site), Guy Dumazert (record producer and recording collector), Martin Engstroem (founder of the Verbier Festival), Hugues Gall (director of Paris’s two opera houses, the Bastille Opera and the Palais Garnier), Sir Peter Hall (founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, director of the Royal National Theatre, and director of operas), Nicholas Kenyon (director of the BBC Proms), J. F. Mastroianni (the legendary manager of opera stars and classical musicians), Peter Mussbach (Intendant of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden), Franz Xaver Ohnesorg (Intendant of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), and Nicholas Payne (former head of Covent Garden and today general manager of the English National Opera).