MUSIC

Making More Music: Conductor-pianist Daniel Barenboim has been named artistic director and general music director of the Deutsche Staatsoper in what was formerly East Berlin. Barenboim, who was controversially and acrimoniously sacked from a similar position with the then-unfinished Bastille Opera in Paris in January, 1989, is to begin a 10-year contract with the German opera house Aug. 1, 1992. His contract must still be ratified by the Berlin city government. Barenboim, who also has a close relationship with the Berlin Philharmonic and takes over as music director of the Chicago Symphony this fall, is currently in Bayreuth conducting Wagner’s “Ring” cycle.