Sir John Eliot Gardiner, 80, will not return to lead the Monteverdi Choir, which he created 60 years ago, amid the fallout from a backstage altercation at a festival in south-east France.

“Playing under Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s direction is akin to climbing ... Côte-Saint-André when the incident occurred. The ...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner is an English conductor who founded the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. He has made over 250 albums with these ...