Arts diary: Bregenz opera festival shaken and stirred by the 007 connection

The name's Pountney, David Pountney. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it? Still, the artistic director of the Bregenz opera festival in Austria (he was also part of the team that ran English National Opera in the 1980s) is as quietly smug as any double-O now that his festival has featured in the latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. An extended sequence in the film takes place during a performance of Philip Himmelmann's 2007 production of Tosca, on Bregenz's spectacular floating...

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