Patrice Chéreau

Patrice Chéreau, director of Bayreuth's Centennial Ring, has died, much too young, at 68, of lung cancer.

I have not seen any of his productions live, but the Salzburg From the House of the Dead is on DVD, and it is beautiful and deeply moving. Yes, I will get that Ring on DVD one of these days.

Elsewhere:

• Boulezian
• Parterre Box
• Alex Ross (to the top of the blog, because the diacritical is making a hash of the URL)