Over the following years Mr Kaplan was invited to conduct flagship ensembles at La Scala in Milan, in Munich and Vienna, to open the prestigious Salzburg festival and to give the work its Chinese premiere in Beijing.

ECONOMIST: Gilbert Kaplan

The first part of the Vienna meeting, on the morning of 22 November will be open to the press.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

"I reached for the pen because I had to open myself, to scream, " the activist said at an exhibition in Vienna's Jewish Museum in 2004.

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