The city of Aachen woke up this morning to discovber that its general music director is leavin g. Christopher Ward, whose contract expires this year, has turned down a renewal and is on his way out.
Ward, 44, has been GMD since 2018. He has insitugated a record revival of the music of Leo Blech and generally energised the sleepy theatre, where Herbert von Karajan was once GMD.
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