The appointment is surprising.
The former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, to whom we attributed a time presidential inclinations, will take the head of the Musicians of the Louvre, announced the organization in a press release.
The decision was taken at a general meeting, and will take effect on January 1, 2022. The new administration is completed by Antoine Boulay, president of the Burgundian
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and the Aedes Ensemble, as well as the current president of the Opéra de Bordeaux: Emmanuel Hondré will replace Marc Minkowski from January 17 Laurence Dessertine.
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The former minister will succeed Pascal Lamy, who keeps his place on the board of directors.
Bernard Cazeneuve himself confirmed the information on his Twitter account, with a quote from academician Georges Duhamel.
Since the election of Emmanuel Macron and his departure from Matignon in May 2017, Bernard Cazeneuve has partially withdrawn from political life.
Still attached to the Socialist Party, he no longer has any electoral mandate.
In the summer of 2017, he announced that he would resume his activity as a lawyer, within the August Debouzy law firm.
He also took over the chairmanship of the board of directors of the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux in 2018.
The return of the founder
Another arrival at the direction of the Musicians of the Louvre, that of Julien Caron as executive director.
The latter stood out for his stint at the head of the Chaise-Dieu festival in Haute-Loire, which honors sacred and symphonic music.
Created in 1982 by Marc Minkowski, the Musiciens du Louvre is a baroque ensemble which has the particularity of playing on period instruments.
Handel, Rameau, Purcell, Berlioz or Massenet, the orchestra has developed the habit of being interested in neglected works.
Based in Grenoble, the ensemble performs regularly at the Philharmonie de Paris and the Opéra de Paris, and has embarked on several tours in Europe and Asia.
Forty years after having founded it, Marc Minkowski is also making his return to the orchestra.
He was in exile in Bordeaux, where he had directed the Opéra National since 2015. He will notably have the opportunity to conduct
Platée
, a lyric comedy by Rameau, from June 17 to July 12 at the Opéra Garnier.
