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Yannick Nezet-Seguin to lead Philadelphia Orchestra
Young conductor gets major post: Yannick Nezet-Seguin to Philadelphia Orchestra
Audiences for classical music may be getting older and older, but the trend for plum conducting jobs continues to skew young. On the heels of Gustavo Dudamel's much-publicized appointment at the Los Angeles Philharmonic before the age of 30, the 35-year-old Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin has been named music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He'll formally start in 2012.
There has been a lot of buzz about Nézet-Séguin for some time, and it's cool to see the grand old Philadelphia Orchestra take a chance on someone not only still quite youthful in conductor years, but relatively unknown. He got the nod after just two guest-conducting stints with the ensemble.
If there's anything to the idea that young, energetic musicians can attract fresh audiences and re-energize seasoned ones, Nézet-Séguin should fit the bill nicely in Philadelphia. The orchestra needs a boost, after a prolonged music director search and worrisome deficits and declines in attendance. This great, noble orchestra has been having a rough patch for too long. My guess is that things are going to perk up well before the new guy is fully in place at the helm.
Here's a video clip that reveals Nézet-Séguin's engaging personality at work on the podium:
Opera on DVD and Blu-Ray June 2010
The following is a list of all full-length opera DVDs and Blu-ray discs scheduled for release in the United States in June 2010.
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Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur [Blu-ray] - Michaela Carosi, Marcelo Álvarez, Marianne Cornetti, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Simone Del Savio, Luca Casalin, Antonella De Chiara, Patrizia Porzio, Carlo Bosi, Diego Matamoros, Giuseppe Milano, Carola Iannuzzi; Lorenzo Mariani; Renato Palumbo, Teatro Regio di Torino, 2008 (Arthaus Musik)
Il Campanello - Carlo Torriani, Luciano Miotto, Sachika Ito, Michiko Dekita, Sebastian Garramon Ferrada; Pietro Ballo; Francesco Ledda, Teatro Bellini di Adrano, 2009 (Kicco Classic)
Puccini: La Boheme / Jonathan Miller, English National Opera Puccini: LA BOHÈME [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Melody Moore, Alfie Boe, Roland Wood, Hanan Alattar, Pauls Putnins, David Stout, Simon Butteriss, Richard Angas; Jonathan Miller; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, English National Opera, 2009 (Kultur) [Sung in English]
Purcell: The Fairy Queen [Blu-ray] - Sally Dexter, Joseph Millson, Jotham Annan, Susannah Wise, Helen Bradbury, Oliver Le Suer, Oliver Kieran Jones, Lucy Crowe, Claire Debono, Anna Devin, Helen-Jane Howells, Rachel Redmond, Carolyn Sampson, Robert Burt, Sean Clayton, Ed Lyon, Adrian Ward, Lukas Kargl, John Mackenzie, Desmond Barrit, Andrew Foster-Williams; Jonathan Kent; William Christie, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 2009 (Opus Arte)
Aida - Tatiana Serjan, Rubens Pelizzari, Iano Tamar, Iain Paterson, Tigran Martirossian, Kevin Short, Ronald Samm, Elisabetta Martorana; Graham Vick; Carlo Rizzi, Bregenz Festival, 2009 (C Major)
Verdi: Othello - Historical Studio Production, 1965 - Wolfgang Windgassen, Sena Jurinac, Norman Mittelmann, Margarita Lilowa, William Blankenship, Adolf Dallapozza, Walter Kreppel, Willy Ferenz, Leo Heppe; Otto Schenk; Argeo Quadri, Film, 1965 (Arthaus Musik) [Sung in German] [Previously released by Immortal]
Verdi: Rigoletto - Marcelo Álvarez, Carlos Álvarez, Inva Mula, Julian Konstantinov, Nino Surguladze, Mercé Obiol, Stanislav Shvets, Joan Martín- Royo, Jon Plazaola, David Rubiera, Sandra Galiano, Vicenç Esteve Corbacho, Eliana Bayón; Graham Vick; Jesús López Cobos, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 2004 (Arthaus Musik) [Re-issue: Previously released on TDK]
Lohengrin - Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Christof Fischesser, Wolfgang Koch, Michaela Schuster; Richard Jones; Kent Nagano, Bavarian State Opera, Munich, 2009 (Decca)
Wagner - Tannhauser / Mehta, Kollo, National Theatre of Munich Wagner: TANNHÄUSER - René Kollo, Nadine Secunde, Waltraud Meier, Bernd Weikl, Claes H. Ahnsjö, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Johannes Pohl, James Anderson, Hans-Günter Nöcker, Gerhard Auer; David Alden; Zubin Mehta, Bavarian State Opera, Munich, 1994 (Kultur) [Previously released by Image]
