The president of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA), which looks after radio and TV sound archives, was has been suspended from his duties today by Culture Minister Rachida Dati.
Laurent Vallet, 55, had admitted to police that he had purchased cocaine from a 17-year-old boy for €600.
His precedessor was fired for spending €40,000 on taxis in a month.
Who knew archives could be such fun?
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The death is reported, after a lengthy illness, of the Italian countertenor and conductor Roberto Balconi. A Milanese, he studied in England with Evelyn Tubb and worked with English Baroque Soloists, Il Giardino Armonico, Il […]
The death of the German composer Wolfgang Rihm has left a vacancy at the festival’s next-gen orchestra. Rihm’s successor, announced today, is to be the German composer and clarinettist Jörg Widmann. The post New wind […]
The Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media has signed a cheque for a the new Richard Wagner Academy at the Dresdner Musikfestspiele. Jan Vogler’s festival has become the space-lab for trying out Wagner operas in […]
