Vienna Festival director Milo Rau hits back at anti-Semitism accusations

As the conflict in Gaza sharply polarises opinion, "we must be inflexible" in defending the free exchange of ideas and opinions, the acclaimed Swiss director told AFP in an interview this week. "I'm not going to take a step aside... If we let the antagonism of the war and of our society seep into our cultural and academic institutions, we will have completely lost," said the 47-year-old, who will inaugurate the Wiener Festwochen, a festival of theatre, concerts, opera, film and lectures that runs...