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Bogdan Roscic, 52, will take up the post in 2020, moving from
Sony's classical music unit which he has headed since 2009.
Before then he worked at Decca Music Group and an Austrian pop
music station, but has never been director of an opera house
before.
He will replace Frenchman Dominic Meyer whose tenure, which
started in 2010, has been marked by clashes with star conductors
Franz Welser-Moest and Bertrand de Billy.
With one of the largest repertoires of any opera house, the
Vienna State Opera caters to an audience of whom about a third
are tourists. Many of them like to see three different operas in
three days, a pressure some say has hurt innovation.
(Reporting by Shadia Nasralla; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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