Roland Kluttig has been chief conductor of the Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic since the 2020 season. After he had successfully directed new productions of Paul Dukas’s Ariane et Barbe Bleu and Karol Szymanowski’s Król Roger at this house in previous years, the 20/21 season began with a production of Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera The Passenger which has been recorded and released on CD and DVD. His stepping in at the Salzburg Festival in 2021 with a performance of Morton Feldman’s opera Neither and the RSO Vienna was a great success. From 2010 to 2020, Kluttig was general music director at the Landestheater Coburg, where he made headlines in particular with his conducting of Lohengrin and Parsifal,...