Salzburg Easter festival hopes harmony will be restored after £1.8m corruption scandal

Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic will open festival hit by resignation and apparent suicide attemptTomorrow afternoon, in the august surroundings of Salzburg's Grosses Festspielhaus, Sir Simon Rattle will take up his baton to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of Götterdämmerung, Wagner's opera of human folly and apocalypse. It is perhaps off stage, however, that the sense of doom will be particularly palpable.The past three months have seen the renowned Easter fe...

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