Taking inspiration from opera visionary Gerard Mortier
An appreciation: Los Angeles owes much to the late Gerard Mortier, who revolutionized the Salzburg Festival and helped give Esa-Pekka Salonen and the L.A. Philharmonic an international stage.Gerard Mortier, who died of cancer on Saturday at age 70, is being widely eulogized for the incalculable role he played in the opera world in the years he headed opera companies in Brussels, Paris and Madrid. Most notably he revo…