Passing the baton
Alberto Veronesi has been appointed Music Director of Opera Orchestra of New York, effective in the 2011-12 season. He will succeed OONY founder Eve Queler, who will become Conductor Laureate once Veronesi’s initial five-year tenure begins.
During the Opera Orchestra’s 2010-11 40th-anniversary season he will serve as Music Director Designate and conduct an opera-in-concert performance, as well as helping to plan future seasons.
The end of Oom-pah-pah conducting? Say it isn’t so!
Maestro Veronesi is a good choice, but how is this possible? OONY has always been Ms. Queller’s baby.
I saw him conduct La Rondine in Nice in 2008. He did a very good job, though the production (from Torre del Lago) was a an overblown, incoherent mess (with two near-naked dancers portraying nesting swallows each time Magda had one of her big moments) and the singing wasn’t too inspiring.
Is it me or is this guy resembling Franco Bonisolli? They look like father and son? Can we have a side by side comparison Cieca carissima?
Uncanny!
Don’t be dissin’ Bert Convy!
Is OONY still going to do either Medea or Rienzi? What’s the latest?
That is Mo. Veronesi? God, he is handsome — I’ll be at every concert if he conducts.
That is Veronesi, yes, but La Cieca has no information whether he’s a Mo.
U are such a naughty auld gurl, Ciechissima!! Really, showing Cher’s pubes on a family site! TSK!
Don’t you forget to have one of your manifold minions buy balloons for WOLFIE’S Big Burpy tomorrow. Believe he’ll be 254–that makes him even older than WE!
what is a Mo?
A Maestro from Missouri
Of course he is a Mo. – the head Mo at the Puccini Festival at Torre del Lago.
He’s the Lago Mo.
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L’AAAAAAAAMO!!!!!!!
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Apropos of nothing herein: I’ve driven all the way to Petaluma just to listen to Pavarotti/Sutherland’s ’76 I Puritani — can it only–oops here comes the high D (T’aaMMMMMMMOOOOO!)
GOD — can it only be 34 years ago people sang like that??? It’s like another world/realm/legend–oops– here comes the high F altissimo — god, it’s so wonderful!
Sorry for my enthused digression, fellows.
And he’s a married Lago Mo with wife and child.
La Donna del Lago Mo
I kind of want to mention the hair but I’m not sure that would be a great idea…
He’s got a serious case of baritone hair. Isn’t that the same hair the Ramey, Milnes and Hampson had?
Actually Lago Mo’s hair is more like this:
LOL! And don’t forget Sam Ramey, he even kept his until very recently. If he still counts, being a bass-bass-baritone.
Sorry but the Oscar for Mo-hair belongs to Riccardo Muti (lifetime achievement).
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