Olivier Mantei dubbed at the Philharmonie

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"choice of reason." That we can situate between continuity and renewal… ”

It is in these terms that Laurent Bayle, Director General of the Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris, welcomed this Wednesday April 28 the announcement by the Ministry of Culture, of his successor, Olivier Mantei. Half a surprise. Because, if the succession of Bayle, 70 years old in June and whose mandate officially ended on March 31 of this year, had not been the subject of a call for tenders, the names of potential candidates, among whom that of Olivier Mantei, had been circulating for several months, among those of Aline Sam-Giao, of the National Auditorium of Lyon, or of the director of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Stephan Gehmacher.

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“There was a fairly long selection process led by the State and the city of Paris, during which they tried to define the profiles of the ideal candidate, benchmarked with foreign institutions, and studied the possibility of profiles. which would not be exclusively

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