Péter Eötvös, who has died aged 80, was a Hungarian conductor and composer whose opera Love and Other Demons, based on Gabriel Gárcia Márquez’s novel, received its premiere at Glyndebourne in 2008; it was not his first experience of the Sussex opera house, having conducted the legendary Anja Silja there in Janacek’s The Makropulos Case in 2001.
Celebrated Hungarian composer and conductor Péter Eötvös has died, his family told MTI. Eötvös, an eminent personality of the Hungarian and international contem